But remember this from yesterday?
Cam says:
i think if he’s released, i don’t think he makes it to the airport to get to out of the country.
Now we see this:
“He is not crazy. He went in front of the media and confessed to being a Christian,” said Hamidullah, chief cleric at Haji Yacob Mosque.
“The government is scared of the international community. But the people will kill him if he is freed,” Hamidullah said.
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.”
Don’t forget the rally today.
Noon to 1pm
Outside the Afghan Embassy
2341 Wyoming Ave NW.
Washington DC
Jim: The only thing I’ll say for now is that these clerics have no idea what kind of emotional nitroglycerin they’re playing with. If Rahman is killed by an angry mob, the Bush Doctrine will be kaput. Nobody will be interested in bringing liberty to the Muslim world when Afghanistan has just proven that it rejects freedom of religion and claims the right to enforce the death penalty by mob for apostasy. The Western world isn’t going to just blame that particular mob, they’re not going to just blame Afghanis. They’re going to blame Muslims.
I suspect that if Rahman is killed, either with court mandate or without, we’re going to look at his death as the trigger for a great deal of violence.
Marshall: Jim pretty much took the words out of my mouth. If this guy is executed by the government for being a Christian, I fear we’ll be far past the tipping point, and a lot closer to a fundamental, and possibly very bloody, clash.
Related Posts
» Paris Hilton cannot be killed. Er, as a pop culture phenomenon.
» Getting Tough on Crime
» This is Why I Hate Politics
» At CPAC: Just Met John Cox
» Our Public Policy Dilemma, In a Nutshell
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
March 24, 2006 - 11:07 am
Fellas, can I make a tiny observation? Whatever the political impact, if the clerics or the government or the mob kill Abdul Rahman, there will be two definite consequences. 1) Abdul Rahman will be with God in heaven, having paid the price of the Apostles and countless other martyrs. 2) many others will see Christianity in a more serious light. Here’s a guy who will die for his faith. The clerics really don’t want that. If they do then they want to kill off their religion. There is an old story of a Romania pastor who was arrested by the secret police. His words say it much better than I could:
“I told the interrogator, ‘You should know your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying,’” Tson said.
“‘Now here is how it works, sir: You know that my sermons are on tape all over the country. When you shoot me or crush me, whichever way you choose, [you] only sprinkle my sermons with my blood. Everybody who has a tape of one of my sermons will pick it up and say, ‘I had better listen again. This man died for what he preached.’ Sir, my sermons will speak 10 times louder after you kill me and because you kill me. In fact, I will conquer this country for God because you killed me. Go on and do it.’
“Dying for the Lord is not an accident. It’s not a tragedy. It’s part of the job. It’s part of the ministry. And it’s the greatest way of preaching.”
If anyone is interested, there is more on the remarkable Josef Tson here: http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=18713
Dying for one’s faith is what they do, but they kill others in the process. That is barbaric. Dying for one’s faith and doing it with a spirit of forgiveness, like Stephen did in the story in Acts, well now that’s pretty divine.
And another thing, where was all this concern for the killing of Christians when that happens all over the world all the time? See here: http://www.persecution.org/newsite/country_info.php?PHPSESSID=256e2c7200511930e16a9428ec222f65
I’m off the soapbox, who’s next?
March 27, 2006 - 5:00 pm
Instapundit reports:
http://instapundit.com/archives/029384.php
“HEH. If this report is true, it serves ‘em right: ‘Hussain Andaryas said the publicity surrounding the Abdul Rahman case had resulted in a surge of interest in Christianity among Afghans.’”
told you so!
Thank God. Lots of prayers said for both Abdul Rahman and Afghanistan.