Ya just can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear

Ok, so perhaps my use of that particular little homily was more than a bit ironic, considering the topic.

Abdul Rahman, 41, a medical aid worker, converted from Islam to Christianity 16 years ago, a fact that came out publicly during a civil custody case between him and his wife in front of local authorities. The authorities charged him with rejecting Islam, a crime under the country's Shar'ia-based law. The penalty, if guilty, is death.

The whole story is

here

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The UN and Amnesty International both have their knickers in a twist over this and Bush is "deeply troubled".

My question is...what the hell do we expect? This is AFGHANISTAN, fer chrissake...not the United States. Do we really believe that our twisted knickers will change something that's so deeply ingrained into these fundamentalist Islamic whackjobs? Do we really belive that we've seen the last of the Taliban? Do we really believe that anything that the US has done in Afghanistan over the last several years is gonna make a bit of difference in the end?

Surely we're not THAT naive.

The term 'Islamic democracy' is an oxymoron. The two cannot possibly exist together. The fundamental principles of Islam dictate that.

We're screaming about freedom from religious persecution, but isn't the very fact that we're trying to intervene in this matter in the first damn place indicative of our religious persecution of the Muslims? They are practicing THEIR religion. Who the hell are we to criticize?

Oh. I forgot. We're Christians, aren't we?