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A quote for today<\/a> (bold and italics mine):<\/p>\n

KABUL, Afghanistan, March 23 – Senior Muslim clerics demanded Thursday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to “pull him into pieces.”<\/p>\n

“Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die<\/strong>,” said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate<\/strong><\/em> and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001.<\/p>\n

[…] Raoulf, who is a member of the country’s main Islamic organization, the Afghan Ulama Council, agreed. “The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled.”<\/p>\n

“Cut off his head!” he exclaimed, sitting in a courtyard outside Herati Mosque. “We will call on the people to pull him into pieces so there’s nothing left.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, so mad props to cleric Abdul Raoulf for standing up to the Taliban and getting jailed three times for it. But, dude, is Allah so weak that something a human can do can actually humiliate Him?<\/p>\n

Of course, maybe he is <\/em>a “moderate,” in comparison to some.<\/p>\n

[Raoulf] said the only way for Rahman to survive would be for him to go into exile.<\/p>\n

But Said Mirhossain Nasri, the top cleric at Hossainia Mosque, one of the largest Shiite places of worship in Kabul, said Rahman must not be allowed to leave the country.<\/p>\n

“If he is allowed to live in the West, then others will claim to be Christian so they can too,” he said. “We must set an example. … He must be hanged.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess moderation is in the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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