October 21, 2008
This is Freedom?
Some days it really bothers me that we've settled for a lot less than we should have in setting up new governments in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Via The Guardian: An Afghan appeal court has overturned the death sentence of a student journalist who was accused of blasphemy after distributing anti-Islamic material, instead sentencing him to 20 years in prison.We've allowed Sharia law way too much influence and ripped the people of those nations out of the freedom and values that have served us so well. Many have given their lives for these wars, only now we find their sacrifice was to create slightly a different band of the same Sharia mess that was there before.Parwez Kambakhsh, 24, whose plight prompted an international campaign to save him, was studying journalism at Balkh University in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and writing for local newspapers when he was arrested in October 2007.
Prosecutors alleged that Kambakhsh disrupted classes by asking questions about women's rights under Islam. They said he illegally distributed an article that suggested the Prophet Mohammad had ignored the rights of women.
Makes me sick to think we've settled for this.
And don't expect Obama to do any better. He's already shown us that his understanding of culture includes supporting and raising funds for Sharia supporting politicians in Kenya. You can use a lot words to describe Sharia law, unfortunately freedom is not one of them.
(update: and no in the same theme I would not want to live under the rules of inquisition of a Papal state either)
