Jay Currie

“The government is scared of the international community. But the people will kill him if he is freed.”

Raoulf, who is a member of the country’s main Islamic organization, the Afghan Ulama Council, agreed. “The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled.”

“Cut off his head!” he exclaimed, sitting in a courtyard outside Herati Mosque. “We will call on the people to pull him into pieces so there’s nothing left.”

He said the only way for Rahman to survive would be for him to go into exile.

But Said Mirhossain Nasri, the top cleric at Hossainia Mosque, one of the largest Shiite places of worship in Kabul, said Rahman must not be allowed to leave the country.

“If he is allowed to live in the West, then others will claim to be Christian so they can too,” he said. “We must set an example. … He must be hanged.”

The clerics said they were angry with the United States and other countries for pushing for Rahman’s freedom.

“We are a small country and we welcome the help the outside world is giving us. But please don’t interfere in this issue,” Nasri said. “We are Muslims and these are our beliefs. This is much more important to us than all the aid the world has given us.”
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It is difficult to take these people seriously except that there is very little doubt that they mean every word that they are saying.

So I am now waiting for the moderate Muslims to take up Rahman’s cause. Searching the first three pages of Google news does not seem to bring up any….Hmmmm.

I also note that Christians have not been burning Afghani flags, attacking Afghani embassies or demanding the deaths of the “Muslim clerics” who so greivously insult our faith and propose to judicially execute – or just plain murder – a member of our faith.