Afghanistan
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mrphA Muslim convert to Christianity could face the death penalty in Afghanistan. Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could be executed under Sharia law unless he reconverts
It sounds as if some things haven't changed much since the Taliban days.
It sounds as if some things haven't changed much since the Taliban days.
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Date: 2006-03-22 02:27 pm (UTC)Germany is going apeshit. Bush has been positively laid back in his comments by comparison. It never seems to occur to them that when we had our new constitution in 1949 we took decades for our law to catch up with it and a lot of ruling that plain simply overturned whole sections of old law.
also i am deeply impressed by all these westerners who defend an independent judiciary and then demand that a government influence theirs ...