Christian convert sentenced to death

God Damned Fundamentalists

Only speaks to the great difficulty in spreading Westen values in these Middle Eastern countries. In many cases, they shun freedom, democracy, and the right to live where we would embrace it by choice.

I do believe he's been acquitted.

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1) He was only arrested.

2) He wasn't charged

3) He's still going to get killed by some cleric in the street.

safer in jail

Indeed safer:

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiap ... index.html

A lot of "odd Islamic legal issues" gets attention these days.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiap ... index.html

This is a great story for people who love the study of paradoxes. One could ask:

Why would anyone want to convert away from a religion where the penalty for converting away is death?

Read in any amount of sarcasm you want...in fact try asking this question to yourself with sarcasm, sincerity, animosity or humor or etc. and see where it takes you.

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Why would anyone want to convert away from a religion where the penalty for converting away is death?

Because your soul is eternal.

Necause he wanted to get famous. He's really just a psychopath.

first off..

life is a jeopardy it's a timetravel, it's a rollercoaster it's a spinnin Cd.

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Hes seeking asylum now. Wonder what country he will be safe in

Any random western country?

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why?

What's free and democratic about executing a man who changed his religion? In a truly free nation, this would have absolutely nothing to do with the State, and would be kept within the religious organizations that were affected.

Western nations in Afghanistan (Canada, US, etc.) are there spreading the right to live as democratic and free people to the country, and presented with this opportunity they turn the other way.

Maybe because they are trying to hold onto their eon-old values and laws. Maybe in their eyes, they are the only ones left with a little bit of decency.

Western Civilization isn't that far off from this sort of behavior. A hundred years ago we were lynching black people for looking at white people. Two hundred years ago we were burning people for witchcraft. Five hundred years ago we were destroying entire civilizations based upon religious wars.

This isn't a fight over Western vs Eastern ideas. It's a matter of trying to bring in civilizations into a global society. A lot of these countries have been kept down economically and technologically by advancing Western Civs for a long time. Now they're being dragged into this global state, and they haven't really had the interim period to mature their own civilization.

It reminds me a lot of the failure of communism. Communism required that countries move from an agricultural based society to a fully functioning industrial society before moving to communism. But coutnries tried to move directly from agriculture to communism, and it caused a lot of fuck ups. Now we have 18th century societies being given new weapons, the internet, thousands of works of literature and art, and so much mroe all at the same time, and the expectation is they behave like a 21st century society. It just doesn't work.

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Western Civilization isn't that far off from this sort of behavior. A hundred years ago we were lynching black people for looking at white people. Two hundred years ago we were burning people for witchcraft. Five hundred years ago we were destroying entire civilizations based upon religious wars.

100 years ago? Try 5 years ago. This shit still happens, just not as much. Even 30 years ago there were still lots of lynchings and a new rise given to the KKK.