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Jewish World Review
March 22, 2006
/ 22 Adar, 5766
Who will save Abdul Rahman?
By
Michelle Malkin
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Abdul Rahman is a man of faith. "I believe in the Holy Spirit. I believe in Christ. And I am a Christian," he declared this week.
Unfortunately for Rahman, he was originally born a Muslim in Afghanistan — and he has been forced to defend his religious
conversion in his home country's court, where he now faces the death penalty for turning to Jesus. Despite the defeat of the
totalitarian Taliban and the existence of a U.S.-backed "moderate" democratic government, it is a capital crime for Afghanis to
openly embrace any religion other than Islam. Sharia law, embedded in the Afghan constitution, overrides its human rights
provisions.
Rahman's family has denounced him as mentally ill. Afghan officials are thirsting for his blood. "We will cut him into little pieces," jail
employee Hosnia Wafayosofi told the Chicago Tribune as she "made a cutting motion with her hands.
The Tribune reported that p rosecutor Abdul Wasi demanded Rahman's repentance and called him a traitor: "He is known as a microbe in
society, and he should be cut off and removed from the rest of Muslim society and should be killed." The country's attorney general says
Rahman should be hung. The judge handling the case, who has been photographed wielding Rahman's Bible as evidence against him,
threatens: "If he doesn't regret his conversion, the punishment will be enforced on him. And the punishment is death."
This is a watershed moment in the post-Sept. 11 world. The Taliban are out of power. And yet today, an innocent man sits in the jail of a
"moderate" Muslim nation praying for his life because he owned a Bible and refuses to renounce his Christian faith. Rahman, who converted
many years ago while working for a Christian aid agency in Germany, "is standing by his words," fellow jail inmate Saya Miakel told Canada's
Globe and Mail. Another cellmate, Khalylullah Safi, reported: "He keeps looking up to the sky, to G-d."
As of Tuesday afternoon, left-wing Amnesty International had nothing to say about the case. But neither did President Bush, a man of faith
and a Christian brother. During his extensive White House press conference on the War on Terror and the defense of freedom overseas, Bush
spent plenty of time describing what life was like for Afghanis before Operation Enduring Freedom:
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"There was no such thing as religious freedom. There was no such thing as being able to express yourself in the public square. There was no
such thing as press conferences like this. They were totalitarian in their view. And that would be — I'm referring to the Taliban, of course. And
that's how they would like to run government. They rule by intimidation and fear, by death and destruction. And the United States of America
must take this threat seriously and must not — must never forget the natural rights that formed our country."
President Bush, who will defend Abdul Rahman's natural rights from being usurped and terminated by Afghanistan's Islamic executioners?
Tony Perkins at the Family Research Council raises the unpleasant question Bush evaded and no one in the White House press corps
bothered to ask: "How can we congratulate ourselves for liberating Afghanistan from the rule of jihadists only to be ruled by Islamists who kill
Christians?…President Bush should immediately send Vice President Cheney or Secretary Rice to Kabul to read Hamid Kharzai's government
the riot act. Americans will not give their blood and treasure to prop up new Islamic fundamentalist regimes. Democracy is more than purple
thumbs."
Embarrassingly, the governments of Italy and Germany have already stepped forward to make direct appeals to Karzai to save Rahman's life.
Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, has ducked the issue so far. Our feckless State Department is "monitoring" the situation.
If we sit on the sidelines and watch this man "cut into little pieces" for his love of Christ, we do not deserve the legacy of liberty our Founding
Fathers left us. How about offering Rahman asylum in the United States? Perhaps Yale University, proud sponsor of former Taliban official
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, can offer Rahman a scholarship. Where's the Catholic church, so quick to offer sanctuary to every last illegal alien
streaming across the borders? And how about Hollywood, so quick to take up the cause of every last Death Row inmate?
Hello, anyone, hello?
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In Unhinged: Liberals Gone Wild
Un·hinged
adj : affected with madness or insanity; [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced]
The American Heritage Dictionary
*** Warning: Unhinged liberals are hazardous to the nation's health.
They're slashing your tires. Burning your lawns. Heaving pies at Republican pundits. Hurling racist epithets at minority conservatives. Nursing nutty conspiracy theories. And pining publicly for the murder of President Bush.
And they call us crazy?
In In Unhinged: Liberals Gone Wild, Michelle Malkin plays conservative Margaret Mead to the alien political creatures of the American Left. With uproarious detail and rollicking reportage, Malkin chronicles the bizarre world of leftists gone mad in their natural habitats: the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, and Washington.
Unhinged unmasks liberals who've completely abandoned rationality and reality. They're taking chainsaws and bayonets to campaign signs. Running down political opponents with their cars. Setting fire to political opponents in effigy. Defacing war memorials. Swiping yellow ribbons off cars. And supporting the fragging of American troops.
In Unhinged, you'll meet:
- The Top 10 Unhinged Leftists, Celebrities, Media Liberals, and Politicians. - The Pennsylvania Democrat who repeatedly screamed "faggot" at his Republican opponents on the Senate floor. - The Florida Democrat who tried to run down former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris with his Cadillac. - The Democrat congressman who claimed the capture of Saddam Hussein was staged by GOP operatives to help the Bush re-election campaign. - The veteran newsman who claimed that Bush advisor Karl Rove and Osama bin Laden are working hand-in-hand to help the Republican Party. - And hundreds more unhinged liberals gone wild!
With wit, wisdom, and a bullet-proof vest, Michelle Malkin ruthlessly and raucously skewers the myths of liberal tolerance, peace, and civility. Unhinged shows how conservatives are driving their opponents mad. The good news for liberals? Self-help starts here.
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