Endgame Viable

This story has been making the rounds in the last couple days: An Afghan man, Abdul Rahman, is on trial for converting to Christianity and faces the death penalty if he doesn’t repent. This is a rare story that is uniting bloggers from both the left and right in their wondering about how this reconciles with the new and improved “democratic free people” of Afghanistan we’ve all been told about. The story is also a nice reminder of why strict Islamic law should not be allowed to spread.

It sounds to me like this particular fellow has a lot of other problems that led him to be singled out and ostracized by basically everyone that knows him, but still, a death penalty seems pretty harsh for simply being an outcast.

Michelle Malkin (lots of information here): “We Will Cut Him Into Little Pieces”. Daily Kos (hint: it’s Bush’s fault): Bush’s Fight for Freedom: Death Sentence in Afghanistan for Being Christian. Andrew Sullivan (simple irony): “Tolerance” In Afghanistan.

• Thomas Krehbiel