Afghan Reporter To Die For Insulting Islam

(AP)  Afghanistan's upper house of parliament lauded the death sentence handed down against a local journalist who was found guilty of insulting Islam, an official said Wednesday.

In a statement signed by Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, the chamber's chairman, the Senate also condemned what it called "international interference" to have the sentence annulled, spokesman Aminuddin Muzafari said.

The journalist, 23-year-old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, was sentenced to death last week by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he printed off the Internet to journalism students at Balkh University.

The article asked why men can have four wives but women can't have multiple husbands.

The court in Mazar-i-Sharif found that the article humiliated Islam. Members of a clerical council also pushed for Kaambakhsh to be punished.

"That issue was not in the (Senate's) agenda, but when lawmakers gathered on Tuesday they insisted on talking about that case," Muzafari said.

Following a debate, lawmakers decided to issue the statement supporting the court's decision, he said.

Kaambakhsh has appealed his conviction and the case will now go to an appeals court. President Hamid Karzai will have the final say in the matter.

International human rights groups have condemned the sentence and called on Afghan authorities to quash it.

[grazinggoat]

When I asked one gentleman how he could shut himself off from the continuing growth in his knowledge of an infinite God, he told me: I know all I need to know to make the judgments I''''ve made. This is the epitome of crediting oneself with knowledge, attainment, and merit he neither possesses or has gained if he is to claim to be on a "path" that actually goes somewhere, like growing in knowledge of God.
Posted by sigotratando at 03:18 PM : Jan 31, 2008

-I''m all humbled, thanks for adding this up.

[gunnerv1]

It goes both ways, "Freedom FROM religon" too.

[gunnerv1]

I say again, is your stupid azz religon so insecure that you have to kill to get people to believe in it?
I''m an Agnostic Jew, so scr*w all of ''em!

[sigotratando]

I would like to make one other point to grazinggoat''s post. In fact, the Bible talks about there being 3 sources of revelation: the Word, Nature, and what has been written on the soul. Yet most Christians I know & have spoken to (in my years discussing & studying theology) is they have chosen to or accidentally ignore 2 of the three, focusing only 1. In fact, no one who adheres to the teachings of Christianity can rationally ignore what nature shows us, for example, in conjunction with what the Bible contains & what the soul corroborates. But not applying oneself to studying all the sources of revelation, people make sweeping approximations of what their natures might be. Egregious examples come from people backing up perversions of Biblical interpretation by saying things like "the Spirit guided me to this interpretation" in some weak reference to what is written on the soul but which are actually personal biases or character defects.

I believe that the all sources of revelation were provided in order that we have a "checks & balances" system to the judgments we arrive at. When I asked one gentleman how he could shut himself off from the continuing growth in his knowledge of an infinite God, he told me: I know all I need to know to make the judgments I''ve made. This is the epitome of crediting oneself with knowledge, attainment, and merit he neither possesses or has gained if he is to claim to be on a "path" that actually goes somewhere, like growing in knowledge of God.

[grazinggoat]

Our fathers brought their faith with them when they left Englad and established freedom of religion (FREEDOM TO WORSHIP) instead of following "religion"....they made it so that we can worship the Lord Jesus Christ freely, without persecution from the Catholic Church.

Posted by singinrick at 09:16 AM : Jan 31, 2008

-I''m sorry Rick, but your positions (in all of your postings) represent a very hard position reminding the position the Church and religions leaders have had in their power trips and during the inquisition dark periods, and still have... They think nothing has been achieved after the birth and death of Jeasus Christ. They still close an eye on all the advances Humanity has achieved since then. Human sciences, philosophy, culture and pure and applied sciences. They just don''t want to include in, the whole knowldge Humans have ''received'' by mean of fundemental research and development.

-They close the door to inputs, from other sources. They deny Buddhism and its wisdom, Athaeism as a pacifying view of life, Environmentalism as an absolute need to Human beings. They give no importance to the United Nations Charter of Rights, garanteeing every human on Earth the rights the Creator has generously granted.

-This is so sad, to see you bashing others, while you are the least tolerent toward other views of Beliefs.

[sigotratando]

I don''t know that it''s fair to expect a "budding democracy" (as Bush put it) to come out of the gate a "mature democracy" any more than it is to expect a human being to be born with the knowledge and experience of a 50 year old. While I abhor the sentencing of this man to death for "insulting" a religion, I have to also realize that Islam is every bit a part of their "budding democracy" as Christianity was/is to ours. If Bush can pray each day and then follow what he believes to be the God-given course of action, then we have to wonder where the appropriate line is for one''s following his religion and where religion ceases to be appropriate for governing a land. If it is true that Christian values thread our democracy because of the beliefs of those who settled here, then it is appropriate to expect the same to happen with the democracies of others with different beliefs.

I am not a bleeding-heart liberal, and this is not an endorsement for religion in politics no matter how it got there. My note is merely to point out that we are judging an infant against more "mature" standard ... or are we?

[quetzal0666]

Posted by underdogus .....

someday theyll make a pill for cowards.....

[sigotratando]

rudy654, Have you heard of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy? http://www.logicalfallacies.info/notruescotsman.html

[underdogus]

but His Follores sure screwed this up... Posted by Quetzal0666 ...LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER........Exhibit "A" QUETZALA LA LAND.....

[quetzal0666]

Jesus never asks us to follow a "religion"

but His Follores sure screwed this up...