March 31, 2006
Fear and hope among the Afghan apostates.
Abdul Rahman, the Afghan Christian who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam, now lives in exile in Italy. But what of the hundreds -- thousands? -- of apostates who remain behind. How has Rahman's case affected them?
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I'm personally embarrassed as an American that the United States was not the first country to offer asylum to Abdul Rahman.
We've failed on freedom of the press (most of our press refusing to publish the otherwise despicable Mohammed cartoons to make it clear that we don't support their fatwa-- I posted them here), we've failed on freedom of speech (when stadium security kicked a bunch of anti-Castro demonstrators out of a game where the Cuban team was playing-- I blogged on that here, and now on this why didn't more bloggers call for the U.S. to do this?
If we don't stand for free press, free speech and free religion, then what the heck do we stand for anymore?
I've been very disappointed in the response by our press, by the blogosphere and by our government to each of these events.
twwren:
So you are suggesting that we are in a war with all 1 billion plus muslims (one out of every five people in the world)?
I find that pretty troubling in itself. And just based on population alone, if that were the case we would probably lose.
I reject your premise outright. I've had friends who were muslims and were in no way violent or threatening.
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