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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Christians Should Be Executed, Afghan Lawmakers Say



Afghanistan then Iraq and now Syria
No matter how many Americans die or return
as triple amputees they will always hate us.


An anti-Christian hate campaign involving several leading Afghan lawmakers and media outlets is proving what many of us already knew - there is no freedom of religion or freedom of thought under Islam.

The anger is directed at Afghan Christians in India – where thousands of Afghan refugees remain and a small church congregation meets in New Delhi – and that the lawmakers concerned are calling for them to face the death penalty reports CNS News.

Converts from Islam to Christianity should be killed according to Islamic law (shari’a), in a bid to stop the growth of Christianity among Afghans inside and outside the country, according to one leading member of parliament cited by the Afghan Voice Agency news service.

Mohabat News, an independent Iranian Christian news agency, reported on Sunday that Nazir Ahmad Hanafi said several weeks ago that “Afghani citizens continue to convert to Christianity in India. Numerous Afghanis have become Christians in India. This is an offense to Islamic laws and according to the Qur’an they need to be executed.”

Hanafi, an independent who represents the province of Herat, is a prominent lawmaker who heads the parliament’s Legislative Commission and reportedly received the third highest number of votes in the 2010 parliamentary election.

Pastor Obaid S Christ (far right) in the Afghan Church in New Delhi.

Mohabat said another lawmaker, Abdul Latif Pedram, blamed the reported increase in conversions to Christianity on the presence of U.S. forces. “The presence of the U.S. in Afghanistan results in the conversion of Afghans to Christianity,” it quoted Pedram – an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2004 and 2009 – as saying. “The United States’ long-term plan is to attack Afghani culture.

Converting Afghan citizens serves that purpose.” Mohabat and Barnabas Fund both noted that the speaker of the national parliament, Abdul Rauf Rahimi, also waded in to the debate over converts, instructing the parliamentary national security committee to follow up the issue. Barnabas Fund said that after the parliamentary debates some media outlets got involved.

“For ten consecutive nights at the end of August, two TV channels broadcast photos of the leader of the Afghan church in Delhi, calling for him to be executed, and also showed images of other Afghan converts in India plus footage of baptisms,” it said.

The Union of Catholic Asia News reported last month on the New Delhi congregation of Afghan Christians, quoting a pastor as saying its members are frequently threatened by Afghan Muslims, and saying the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) did not pay proper attention to the plight of Afghan Christians.

 
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And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all 


Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong
Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?
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 "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" 
 


"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
~Agatha Christie

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wtf? Do you know anything at all about Middle East history? About US domination and destruction? For you americans, the sad thing about war is when your soldiers die. And what about the hundreds of thousands of civilians murdered by US troops? America refuses to acknowledge that terrorism exists because of what the West did to the Middle East. Is easier for americans to believe that terrorists are religious crazy people rather then listen for what many of them say that their acts of violence exists because the US killed their people first (killing innocents is always wrong, both sides are wrong). Read Globalization & Postcolonialism. Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-first Century, more especifically, chapter 5 (Postcolonial Encounters: Islamic “Terrorism” and Western Civilization). Go learn something before saying all this orientalist imperialist bullshit.

Gary said...

I have forgotten more about Middle East history than you will ever have a chance to learn.

Simply, they are religious crazy people (to use your words). They murder in the name of Allah and fully expect to get to heaven for their killings. Facts and nothing but the facts.

As for Western Imperialism, if you were a regular reader of this Blog you would know that I oppose Imperialism and want all nations to mind their own business and stay inside their own borders.

But it is much easier for people like you to spout slogans than read.