I'm not going to speculate how and why "Shariah" law condones this kind of teaching. True, you may not be against any other religion, but what if you see your own as demanding the death of so-called "apostates?"
The whole issue of Abdul Rahman's conversion to Christianity from Islam goes even deeper than an "Afghan decision" as US spokesman Sean McCormack called it. It doesn't even go to whether or not you're Muslim, Christian, Hindu or anything else, but the whole issue of freedom. President Bush believes he has freed the people of Afghanistan from Taliban rule, but what is the point if the clerics keep calling for death to converts?
And I don't think I'm the first to see a sort of hypocrisy here. The "moderate" Islamic population has been called--no, exhorted--again and again to actively oppose radical teachings, and yet say nothing about the treatment of those from other faiths in their own countries. At best, it's a non-issue, nothing worth losing your cool over.
Someone is opening the persecution genie's bottle over there. God help us all.
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