Abdul Rahman

Afghan citizen Abdul Rahman faces the death penalty in Afghanistan for the “crime” of converting from Islam to Christianity.

Read the latest at Michelle Malkin’s blog (more here). I join her call in asking readers to do the following in order to try and help save his life:

Write the embassy of Afghanistan:

Ambassador Said T. Jawad
Embassy of Afghanistan
2341 Wyoming Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
info@embassyofafghanistan.org

Contact the State Department:

U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520

Main Switchboard:
202-647-4000

Or send the State Dept. an email here. Where it says “Select a Topic” at the bottom, click on the dropdown menu and select “Ask the State Department.”

John at Powerline writes:

[…] this isn’t what our troops fought and died for in Afghanistan.

Exactly right.

My email is on the way.

9 Responses to "Abdul Rahman"

andrew says:

March 21, 2006 at 11:08 am

The interesting thing is events like this would be used to argue for invasions of countries like Iran, but don’t quite work with the countries that we’ve supposedly liberated.
Amy Proctor says:

March 21, 2006 at 11:15 am

Afghan Christian Rejects Islam

The list goes on and on. Islam teaches a warped view of Christianity which would, aside from the dictate to “kill all Infidels”, encourage the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity as a form of justice for blasphamy and rejection …
Sloan says:

March 21, 2006 at 12:23 pm

I will certainly be sending some emails. This is unbelievable.

I think I can say this with a fair degree of certainty: if this man dies, my support for the Afghan war will end…and quite possibly my support of the Iraq war as well.

I think that’s the message we need to send to the President, the State Department, and the new government of Afghanistan: if this man is executed, we pull out. I don’t want American blood spilled to defend the very abuses that were conducted by the regime we just defeated. And I’m willing to bet that most Americans are with me on that.
Jim M says:

March 21, 2006 at 1:29 pm

Well said Sloan, we remove the Taliban and it seams the new Afghan government kept the same old laws the Taliban’s used to repress the Afghan people to begin with. Unfortunately if we do pull out it will leave a vacuum and the country will be right back to pre 9/11 supporting terrorists and more of a threat to us.
Baklava says:

March 21, 2006 at 3:27 pm

I wrote. It’s all I can do.

Andrew you are off key again. I can’t imagine a scenario where you’d say something positive. Whether we controlled every movement of every afghan citizen or gave them their country back completely you’d say something negative either way.

Even though your beef is really with the leaders who are trying to impose the death penalty you are acting like us conservatives need to be fought against.

It shows your failure not ours. What would you have done? Left the taliban in place? You’ll have it either way I know so you don’t need to answer the question.
andrew says:

March 21, 2006 at 3:31 pm

“It shows your failure not ours”

Yup. Me. Here at school. Am failing to control afghanistan.

Its really just a comment on triumphalism, on how we base decisions to go to war, on the empty rhetoric of liberation.
andrew says:

March 21, 2006 at 3:33 pm

“What would you have done? ”

I would have supported a secular, modernizing and centralizing government. One that jimmy carter decided to overthrow using islamic fundamentalists.
steve says:

March 21, 2006 at 4:13 pm

The 300 American troops who have been killed in Afghanistan, died why? Peace
camojack says:

March 22, 2006 at 3:39 am

Way ahead of you…

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