Karzai Intervenes, Clerics Blame Jews
Charles Johnson
Sat Mar 25, 2006 at 7:48 am PST • Views: 355
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is intervening in the case of the Christian convert threatened with death, but the clerics are not happy about it.
And they know who’s really to blame for this.
Senior clerics condemned Rahman as an apostate.
Rahman had “committed the greatest sin” by converting to Christianity and deserved to be killed, cleric Abdul Raoulf said in a sermon Friday at Herati Mosque.
“God’s way is the right way, and this man whose name is Abdul Rahman is an apostate,” he told about 150 worshippers.
Another cleric, Ayatullah Asife Muhseni, told a gathering of preachers and intellectuals at a Kabul hotel that the Afghan president had no right to overturn the punishment of an apostate.
He also demanded that clerics be able to question Rahman in jail to discover why he had converted to Christianity. He suggested it could have been the result of a conspiracy by Western nations or Jews.
Frank says: