"Why are we defending this Afghanistan?" (Aid worker to be killed for converting)

One-legged Afghan Red Cross worker set to be hanged after converting to Christianity

An Afghan physiotherapist will be executed within three days for converting to Christianity.
Said Musa, 45, has been held for eight months in a Kabul prison were he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by inmates and guards.
Mr Musa, who lost his left leg in a landmine explosion in the 1990s, has worked for the Red Cross for 15 years and helps to treat fellow amputees.
Said Musa is facing execution unless he converts back to Islam
He was arrested in May last year as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy following a crackdown on Christians within Afghanistan.
He claims he was visited by a judge who told him he would be hanged within days unless he converted back to Islam.
But he remains defiant and said he would be willing to die for his faith.
He told the Sunday Times: 'My body is theirs to do what they want with.
'Only God can decide if my spirit goes to hell.'
Defence lawyers have refused to represent him, while others have dropped the case after receiving death threats.
Mr Musa was arrested after a TV station showed western men baptising Afghans during secret ceremonies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-converting-Christianity.html#ixzz1DDpsZnI0

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Why are we defending this Afghanistan?

Jihadist terrorism must be confronted and killed and that means the U.S. must be in Afghanistan, which for decades has, along with Pakistan, meant safe haven for the Osama bin Ladens of the world. Billions of U.S. dollars and the blood of thousands of young American men and women have been spent to that end in Afghanistan.

But what are we to do with the reality represented by cases like those of Abdul Rahman and Sayed Mussa, Afghans who converted from Islam to become followers of Jesus Christ and for which they now face the death penalty according to Afghan law?

Rahman escaped death only because of the intervention on his behalf of the U.S., which spirited him out of Afghanistan to live a life of of anonymity elsewhere to be safe from Muslim fanatics who take seriously the Koran's injunction to put to death all who forsake Allah for the Christian, Jewish or other gods.

Mussa has yet to be so saved. He faces the death penalty for conversion and at this point there appears to be little likelihood that he will be spared that fate. His plight is the subject of a front-page story in today's London Sunday Times, but its unfortunately behind a pay wall, so I can't link you to it.

Politico's Mike Allen, however, offers these excerpts from what appears to be a devastating look into the truth about the Afghan theocracy being propped up by U.S. blood, treasure and arms:

And yesterday's edition of The New York Times also carried an important story on Mussa and the plight of Christian converts in Afghanistan. The Times notes that U.S. officials are trying to find a solution that will spare Mussa's life:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs...hy-are-we-defending-afghanistan#ixzz1DDqHwOhk

 

I agree, but I don't understand why the Western world cannot put some pressure on Mr. Karzai to change crazy laws like this.

 

showtang, did you read my post at all? I am pointing the finger at the Afghan government/parliament and at the Western powers who are apparently not putting enough pressure on the Afghan government to get this crazy law repealed.

The article states that Karzai directly ordered for this to happen. He is just in Munich right now at the security conference:



Merkel and the others should talk to him about this poor man's fate:





You are the one getting defensive even though I said nothing about Islam here.

However, since you start discussing it, some Muslims claim that the death penalty is appropriate for apostasy - and it is even the law in some countries. Can you convince them (not me, but I would like to read your reasoning) that this is an incorrect understanding of the religion, rather than getting defensive at me for wanting the law repealed and this poor man saved?

P.S.: By the way, I also think that religious aid organizations should refrain from trying to convert people when this could threaten their lives, and should focus on their humanitarian work only.