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.orgContact the State Department:
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520Main 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.
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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.
Comment by andrew @ 3/21/2006 - 11:08 am
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.
Comment by Sloan @ 3/21/2006 - 12:23 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.
Comment by Jim M @ 3/21/2006 - 1:29 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.
Comment by Baklava @ 3/21/2006 - 3:27 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.
Comment by andrew @ 3/21/2006 - 3:31 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.
Comment by andrew @ 3/21/2006 - 3:33 pm
The 300 American troops who have been killed in Afghanistan, died why? Peace
Comment by steve @ 3/21/2006 - 4:13 pm
Way ahead of you…
Comment by camojack @ 3/22/2006 - 3:39 am