Religion Bashers: Start Your Engines

[rstrik]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188364,00.html

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan man who allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death, a judge said Sunday.

The defendant, Abdul Rahman, was arrested last month after his family went to the police and accused him of becoming a Christian, Judge Ansarullah Mawlavezada told the Associated Press in an interview. Such a conversion would violate the country's Islamic laws.

Rahman, who is believed to be 41, was charged with rejecting Islam when his trial started last week, the judge said.

During the hearing, the defendant allegedly confessed that he converted from Islam to Christianity 16 years ago when he was 25 and working as a medical aid worker for Afghan refugees in neighboring Pakistan, Mawlavezada said.

Afghanistan's constitution is based on Shariah law, which states that any Muslim who rejects their religion should be sentenced to death.

"We are not against any particular religion in the world. But in Afghanistan, this sort of thing is against the law," the judge said. "It is an attack on Islam. ... The prosecutor is asking for the death penalty."

The prosecutor, Abdul Wasi, said the case was the first of its kind in Afghanistan.

He said that he had offered to drop the charges if Rahman changed his religion back to Islam, but the defendant refused.

Mawlavezada said he would rule on the case within two months.

Afghanistan is a deeply conservative society and 99 percent of its 28 million people are Muslim. The rest are mainly Hindus.

Oh wait most of you practice selective criticism, nevermind. Here let me link this for you. So you don't get bored.

http://www.cc.org/

[SinisterKungFu]

This is what happens when a country is run by a theocracy.

[waz]

Has anyone else reported this other than the "Christian Coalition of America"? Not saying that it does not happen but these people are hardly the beacons of tolerance considering their own stances on other faiths going to hell and homosexuals are evil blah blah.

[TheLion]

...Doesn't suprise me. Just another example of radical muslims trying to rid the world of the "infidels"....if it is infact, true.

[GermanBJJ]

* Cue bRaT *

[Deadboy]

So..dude would rather face death than convert back to Islam...that's interesting.

[Cause of Death]

What's an engins?

[deadlyshaolin]

"We are not against any particular religion in the world. But in Afghanistan, this sort of thing is against the law," the judge said. "It is an attack on Islam. ... The prosecutor is asking for the death penalty."

This is my favorite excerpt. Hilarious.

[lizard]

Because Muslims know the Christians are right.

[TheLion]

Originally Posted by lizard

Because Muslims know the Christians are right.

How do you manage to top your own stupidity with each post?! It's amazing.