TagsTagsChristian Convert Abdul Rahman has left Afghanistan, and been granted asylum in Italy. KABUL, Afghanistan - The man who faced the death penalty after converting from Islam to Christianity left Afghanistan on Wednesday, and Italy said it granted him asylum and expected him to arrive “soon.” Big LGF kudos to the ...
From the Christian Science Monitor: Conversion a thorny issue in Muslim world. How thorny? Well... Most mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence call for converts to be executed. Though the Koran promises only hellfire for apostates and also says “there should be no compunction in religion,” Islamic jurists have typically argued that execution ...
The apostasy case against Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman has been dismissed: Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence and he will ...
Afghanistan, Shari'a, Apostasy, Death Penalty, Karzai, Rahman
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 ...
Afghanistan is now saying that the Christian convert on trial for his life under barbarous shari’a law is mentally unfit. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man facing a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity may be mentally unfit to stand trial, a state prosecutor ...
Afghan Christian Could Get Death Sentence. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under this country’s Islamic laws, a judge said Sunday. The trial is ...