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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (18805)3/23/2006 12:58:37 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
WANT GOOD NEWS? AFGHANIS SAYING RAHMAN WON'T BE EXECUTED

TKS
jim geraghty reporting

In the post below, I told the Anchoress and anyone else feeling down about the deluge of bad news coming at us 24-7 to recognize the good news in the world, good news that is often either unreported or given the worst possible spin in the headlines.

Start with the trial of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan convert to Christianity. President Bush has weighed in, understated but direct. Cam and others are helping organize a protest at the Afghan Embassy in D.C., Friday at noon.

The fact that the prosecutor is now claiming Rahman may be mad is a somewhat hopeful sign — there's a loophole to get him off the hook.

There are also reports that "diplomats from several nations said on Wednesday they had been assured Mr Abdul Rahman, in his 40s, would not be put to death and Afghan diplomatic sources confirmed this."

I'd rather that the Afghan government made clear that converting from Islam is not a crime in their nation. But accounts suggest that the Afghan government was seeking a way to drop the case because of the reaction it has caused. And it's nice to see the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington coming out and declaring Rahman's conversion to be "a personal matter not subject to the intervention of the state," with no, "Yes, but." In fact, they cite Koranic verses banning complusion of religion.

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