Islamic Religious Freedom-An Oxymoron

Below is an article sent to me from a friend at my office:


Afghan man prosecuted for converting
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) —

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 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% of its 28 million people are Muslim. The rest are mainly Hindus.

If in the U.S. Christians were to condemn a Christian who had converted to Islam to death we would be castigated as being bigots, narrow-minded and inquisitionists.

The media would criticize our action and the world would react in horror.

However the liberal media has a double standard. If the action is taken by Islam, then it is viewed as unfortunate but interpreted within their religious and cultural context.

This is outrageous by any standard.

HarleyDad has a Christian son fighting for both the U.S. and the Afghan government on Afghan soil. Yet I don't hear the Afghan government asking that our Christians troops not be there to fight. And so there is another double standard.

In short, all this evidences that in essence it is a religious war not a political or terrorist situation.

It is OK in the U.S. for Islam to convert Christians to their faith; however in these other Islamic countries the converse is not true--Christians can not convert members of Islam to Christianity.

The human and religious rights of the Islamic countries make the human rights position of China look benign by comparison.

My, it sure seems quiet out there. What happened to our courageous media?

HarleyDad