Thanks, Michelle for bringing this to our attention. Somebody in our government had better do something about this..........Let's "Walk the Talk" Mr. President!!!

Amen, Michelle; excellent article! I did a search over at Amnesty International's page and sure enough, nothing mentioned about this. What good will "monitoring" the situation do for Abdul Rahman? Not much, I'm afraid. This article needs to be sent out across the world...
-Kelly

I think the first thing we should do is get the guy out of the country.

I also believe we are rapidly reaching a tipping point as to sentiment about Islam. Our leaders and opinion makers are in denial on the subject, and I believe there is a conspiracy to cover up all Muslim misbehavior in the name of keeping good relations with "the moderates' and American values.

Muslim moderates are just a figment of the imagnation, and further I would say, that if these creatures do exist, and took power, nothing would change.

At some point people

This should soon become a cause celeb. Yes, apostacy is a capital crime in Islam. Many parts of the world haven't embraced liberal democracy's zeal for individual freedoms. Amnesty, the Catholic Church and Hollywood will all be on board, once they know about it. Human rights isn't a left-right issue, it's a right-wrong issue.

Pray, Pray and Pray again that the Glory of God will prevail.

This man is willing to die as many have over the centuries for his Love and relationship with Christ. He knows what his ultimate fate is which is a physical death but he also knows where he will be afterwards. He is not afraid and his example, should he be executed, will only enforce the meaning of Christianity and the true evils of Islam. In this example, how many more will convert to Christ? Many more than you may realize.

The taliban or the al-queda would be heroes if they never killed anyone and just let people be who they want to be. It is their very act of violence and hate that has established Islam as worshiping the wrong god. Through this, many in their own camps and countries, know the truth. A witness in their heart tells them that "This is not love nor is it of the true God.

A soldier gives his life so others can live and a martyred Christian will not deny God so others will know that He is the Truth and life eternal.

If Rahman is temporarily redeemed from death here on earth, he will have another purpose for which God will dictate through the rest of his life. So let's go back to the beginning...Pray, Pray and Pray again....Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done...

Well ok, what did we expect the muslims to do? As for Hichey-Wood? They hate; 1. Morals (period) and 2. Christians in particular (being Jews, science-fictionists, writers (gay or communist) or just plain socialist news reporters of various stripes). The funniest, to me, are the self-absorbed science-fiction inspired, self-deluded, self-important, self-worshiping, ego freaks who know no truth (these are the good qualities of the inhabitants of this "make-believe" town of pedophiles and deviants who have come to believe that photogenicity equals wisdom and political understanding).

"Scientology" hack hack koff sneeze These people actually believe this trash. What a hoot. I read L Ron Hubbard back when he was just a (not very good) Sci-Fi writer and I promise you he is NOT god. Oh, well, a delusion is a delusion. These guys watched too much Dune and Star Wars.

I vote we change our laws to reflect reality. Any American converting to Islam will be paired with a Scientologist, a Christian Scientist and a Yale or Harvard Professor - and then either executed or sent to Afghanistan.

Michelle Malkin takes the stance that somebody, particularly the President, should do something to stop this outrageous punishment. My first impression is somewhat different, however. We should pray for the soul of this, soon to be, martyr; and pray, also, that his sacrifice will speed the change in Afghani law.
Look, many people think that all capital punishment throughout the world should be abolished. There are some who would have capital punishment invoked for less serious crimes than what it is now used for. I think the answer is, perhaps, somewhere in the middle. In Afghanistan they have embedded Sharia law into their constitution and therefore, for this ‘crime’, capital punishment is recommended. The people voted for that constitution. Under the Taliban, Sharia law was imposed on the people. To me, that makes all the difference in the world.
I do think that efforts should be made to get them to alter their laws to include freedom of religion; but that is not what they voted for now. It is not our place to interfere with the administration of their duly voted-on constitution; and this man may have to suffer martyrdom in order to show the way for the need for such a change. That is part of the package that goes with freedom: the freedom to make whatever laws fit their culture.
What I do wonder at is why Sharia law calls for capital punishment when a Muslim converts to Christianity (or Judaism). The Koran recognizes Jesus as the final Messiah and also that Father Abraham and Moses (the Lawgiver) are a part and parcel of Islam. If there is hope for this unfortunate man, it lies in that part of the Koran. The Koran states that “People of the Book” should not be molested, the Book being the bible, both the Old and New Testaments.
Michelle Malkin is correct in pointing out that the usual people who oppose capital punishment are surprisingly quiet in this man’s case, however. Where is Amnesty International? Where, especially, is the Catholic Church? If nothing else, the Church should make a statement concerning the fate of Martyrs. It seems that they forgot the Holocaust, where their silence allowed millions of people to be exterminated like vermin. Speaking out, back in the thirties and forties, may have brought the wrath of the Nazi; but as Abdul Rahman is showing the world, it takes courage to be a follower of Christ. I pray, also, that if that fate ever befalls me, I too will have the courage of my conviction. I am a follower of Christ Jesus!
It would be a tragic mistake, however, for the United States to force the Afghanis to stop this man’s execution, in my honest opinion. We freed them to follow whatever path they chose. They chose this one. For good or ill, they chose this one freely. Abdul Rahman and the rest of us will have to suffer the consequences, else all of our sacrifices would have been made in vein. Freedom is a dangerous way of life.
At one time, in this country, we hung people for stealing a horse. I am not terribly upset when people think that religion is more important than a horse. Our country changed. Someday, when circumstances change in Afghanistan, they may change their laws as well. We are all going to die. Some of us may die of old age; some of us may die of cancer; some of us may die for what we believe in. We seldom get a choice in the matter. Abdul Rahman has a choice; and he has chosen Jesus.
We should not be condemning Afghanistan here; we should be celebrating the strength of Abdul Rahman’s convictions.
That was my first impression when I read about this, yesterday, in a Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/) and it remains my opinion today, after having time to reflect on the matter. I suspect that it will be my opinion tomorrow and the day after. Such is my conviction.
May God bless Abdul Rahman.

The 1st Cruade started when the Muslims deliberately trashed the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to show their contempt for Christianity.

It took about 50-60,000 Crusaders to kick the crap out of all of Islam to repay that insult.

Suddenly my Crusader ancestors makes far better sense to me.

AWatts Jr ...

I'm getting just a little tired of this continuous anti-Catholic rant about the Holocaust.

The ONLY reason the Church of Rome maintained relations with the Nazis was to use every means available to get Jews out of the occupied territories, not just Germany. That, Mr. Watts is certifiable and documented history. What you just said is the anti-Catholic mythology perpitrated by liars and frauds who use any and every excuse to slander the Church of Rome.

And, for you information, the Church of Rome has historically maintained active offices throughout Islam working continuously for humane and peaceful resolutions to this kind of thing.

... so where the heck are the rest of you guys??? Better yet, where the heck have the rest of you guys been before this incident occurred? Where were you for the countless other ones? You think this guy is the only one who's been marked out for martyrdom?

So whose silence is obvious by your lack of presence?

As to the Quoran describing the fair treatment of Jews and Christians ... yeah, sure ... read the parts about what they can do with your daughters when they kill you and sieze your property.

Let me spell it out ... Jesus is a 'prophet' to them, but they consider Christians to be infidels who did not keep what they view as the true teachings of Jesus.

Get it???

Who Will Save Abdul Rahman? Well, if he is a faithful Christian, God will, of course. That is a given.
The immediate question, I think, is who will save his corporal life. In the eternal view this doesn't matter. In the first person, present tense it is of some interest to many of us. I see no hopeful solution to this modern version of the wars of the 1200's The primitive thinking by and lack of a central locus of control for the Islam-o-fascists will embolden the radicals to push us beyond the point of any restraint. We will then have to attack the city-states of the Muslims themselves and they will squeal "it was not we who attacked you O Great Satin."

Now it hits the freakin' fan. Russia, China, France, Germany & India stay out of it or condemn us. Turkey, Indonesia, and possibly Pakistan side with all the Arab countries and attack everything American in the middle East. Possibility they will attack Israel at the same time. China may grab Taiwan while we are busy. Cuba and Indonesia will unite several leftist countries in South and Central America, likely taking the Panama Canal. North Korea will threaten South Korea.
Iran will declare it has nuclear weapons.
Iran will fuel coos in Pakistan to over throw the friendly government there.
They will also march into Iraq to join the Imams there in Jihad against Israel and America.

All because that jerk Jimmy Carter was president and had no clue what he was doing.

coups oops

For those of you who doubt what I said about the deliberate and persistent anti-Catholic rhetoric, here is the url and content. These FACTS have been well known for how long now??? And the opposition lie keeps going on and on and on ...

Who was it that said that Satan is the father of all lies?

http://www.catholicleague.org/pius/piusxii_faqs.html

Pope Pius XII was not silent in the face of Nazism, either before he was elected pope in 1939 or during the war years. As Golda Meir, future Israeli Prime Minister and then Israeli representative to the United Nations, said on the floor of the General Assembly at the Pope’s death in 1958: “During the ten years of Nazi terror, when our people went through the horrors of martyrdom, the Pope raised his voice to condemn the persecutors and commiserate with the victims.” Some of the Jewish organizations that praised Pope Pius XII at the time of his death for saving Jewish lives during the horror of the Nazi Holocaust were: the World Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League, the Synagogue Council of America, the Rabbinical Council of America, the American Jewish Congress, the New York Board of Rabbis, the American Jewish Committee, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the American Jewish Committee, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the National Council of Jewish Women. Were all these simply lying or playing politics? Would these organizations insult the memory of the millions killed for some ephemeral political gain?

Thinker,

You've pretty well painted the dark reality, give or take a few strokes.

But do not dismay ... Islam wants to survive this. Too bad they've already insured their own destruction by poisoning the one thing that should have been left alone.

Ultimately China will not stay out of this. They will gladly massacre their own troublesome muslim hordes in their own country before falling on Pakistan and Afghanistan, and even Iran.

Ultimately Russia cannot stay out of it, because Islam historically claims that it owns Moscow.

This is a nasty little game. And, in the end, Islam gets to become a very large ghetto that no one wants, and every troublesome Muslim will be banished to.

Very cynical powers play at this game, and Islam is too stupid and short sighted to catch on.

Athing

Yes, it is a dark time.

The last time we called it the dark ages. And there were no nukes then. The west has had the good sense to leave that monster in the bottle because our little wars have been over power and property. These primitives would irradiate the world in a heart beat if they had the bomb, because they are doing the work of allah. Pakistan is shaky enough without thinking about Iran or Syria. As for China, the activists are steering clear of them because (as you say) The Chinese Gov. would just pick up every Muslim and shoot them. So much for hiding in the population. We are hesitant to use profiling in the airport and china would shoot them all. Maybe that's why we were attacked. Do you think.

Thinker,

Why were we attacked and not China, especially given that ALL of Chgina is technically under Islam from the days of the Muslim Mongol rulers?

Two reasons:

1.) the Chinese rounded up and shot all of their drug addicts instead of electing them to public office.

2.) and, as you said, they would round up and shoot the Jihadi trouble makers whereas our government is hampered by the drug induced delusions of the senile Boomer-Doper cut-and-run Left ... something the Jihadis calculated well in advance.

I'm trying real hard to think how Abraham Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt would have handled this.

Referring to Michelle Malkin's choice of title for this article. WHO WILL SAVE ABDUL RAHMAN? It is unneccessary to SAVE Mr. Rahman. That has been assured, but he does need a Pardon from the Afghan government.

They CANNOT pardon him ... Islam cannot ever show a breach, a break, or anything that their own followers would consider a weakening. If they did that, 50% of them would convert to anything else as soonest.

They'll call him 'crazy' and deport him back to the nation that made him 'crazy' for treatment.

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