Christian convert in Afghanistan faces the death penalty for apostasy
Lee Jay Walker
The Modern Tokyo Times
Despite the vast numbers of international military forces in Afghanistan and huge economic support from Western nations, it is still a crime to leave the religion of Islam in Afghanistan. Therefore, International Christian Concern (ICC) is trying to raise the awareness of this brutal reality and for Shoaib Assadullah he faces the threat of death or twenty years in prison within the following week.
It is abundantly clear that Afghanistan is not democratic and religious freedom and female emancipation is a million miles away. In fact, it sometimes appears that the Taliban is still in power because little is being done to stop Islamic barbarity and people clearly reside in fear.
Therefore, Afghanistan is a clear failure and Islamic clerics, political leaders, the judiciary, and ordinary Muslims, support Islamic Sharia law and killing apostates and other draconian laws. Given this, then what was all the Western aid spent on and how can you have a democratic and plural society when the rule of law is based on Islam?
Shoaib Assadullah is the reality of this failed policy because while Japan and Germany were forced to change after World War Two, it is clear that Islamic fascism is being given a free reign in Afghanistan. Therefore, tax-payers money in the West is being spent on supporting a judicial system which supports killing converts to Christianity or any other non-Muslim faith in Afghanistan.
It is clear madness on the part of Western nations because it is obvious that Islam is the problem in Afghanistan and the power of Islam within the institutions of this nation needs to be eliminated and a secular based society must be encouraged. After all, is it good enough to say that the people of Afghanistan do not deserve freedom and that Western nations must not encroach on the religion of Islam?
Therefore, for the “do nothing camp” they are supporting women being shackled by male Islamic leaders and for converts to Christianity to be killed by the Islamic sword. Let us not shy away from the reality of Islam in Afghanistan because it turned this once Buddhist/Hindu dominated nation into yet another “Islamic year zero” and for many Islamic leaders they even fear female education being equal with that of men.
Is it good enough to say that apostates, women, and homosexuals should be controlled by the sword of Islam and that the next generation in Afghanistan should continue to be victimized by the reality of Islam in this nation?
If you are concerned about human rights, the dignity of humanity, religious freedom, and for the shackles to be lifted then it is vital that people show their support for Shoaib Assadullah and others like him. After all, if Shoaib Assadullah is allowed to be killed or put in prison for a very long time, then he of course is the “real victim” but when we look at the bigger picture the world is also a victim.
It is a case of “light” versus “Islamic tyranny” and Islamic fascism in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the Maldives, Yemen, and other Islamic based societies where apostates face the death penalty, should shame all nations which tolerate this in the modern world. What is the excuse?
ICC state that Shoaib Assadullah faces one week to renounce his faith. If he does not, then he faces the death penalty and of course this was sanctioned by Mohammed and this should shame political and religious leaders who state that Islam means peace because it is obvious that the Islamic faith is based on violence and coercion.
Religious pluralism, liberty, and freedom does not enter the Islamic equation but stoning people to death, killing apostates, cross amputation, and so forth, does enter the reality of Islam. This reality is devouring innocent non-Muslims and apostates in many nations. If the world remains silent then Shoaib Assadullah will become yet another victim. Therefore, how can silence be “just” and how can the status quo be “excused” when killing in the name of Allah is sanctioned by the legal system of Islamic Sharia law?
Aidan Clay, ICC Regional Manager for the Middle East, said, “Shoaib Assadullah may be given a death sentence as early as tomorrow if the international community does not act quickly. If Assadullah is executed, his death will signify the failure of the United States and her allies to liberate Afghanistan from the radical ideals of the Taliban after investing millions of dollars to reform the country’s judicial system. We urge the international community to demand the immediate release of Assadullah and to hold Afghanistan accountable to its commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Therefore, it is up to individuals to campaign and support people like Shoaib Assadullah because he is on the frontline but the frontline will spread to other nations if it is not stopped in the Islamic world. Indeed, many Islamists in the West and ordinary Muslims also support killing apostates and it is clear that the “liberal approach” is not working.
Also, Christian religious leaders have an obligation to inform people about the brutal reality of Islamic Sharia law and the same applies to political leaders in the free world. After all, democracy at home is not based on human rights and until the reality of Islamic Sharia law is challenged, alongside political Islam and stealth jihad, then the world will be held to ransom by the forces of Islamic fascism.
If Shoaib Assadullah is killed or put in prison for a long time then this will be yet another dark day and the forces of darkness will see this to be yet another victory over humanity.
After all, Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations and organizations are spreading the Islamic faith to non-Muslim nations but of course not one single Christian church or Buddhist temple is allowed in the land of Mecca and Medina. It is clear that Islamists and nations like Saudi Arabia are dictating to the free world despite their draconian thinking which is based on the Koran, the Hadiths, and Islamic Sharia law.
Therefore, the free world needs to wake up because many followers of Islam desire to enforce the “chains of Islam” and the “sword of Islam” on both non-Muslims and apostates. Silence or caving in is not the way to respond nor should false statements about Mohammed be allowed with regards to being a man of peace.
Shoaib Assadullah is a victim because of the teachings of Islam and the hate filled laws are based on what Mohammed supported and stated. Leaders in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, and other Islamic Sharia law based nations, are evil because they support killing apostates. Yet the ultimate evil belongs to Mohammed because innocent people are being killed in his name and it was he who supported this brutal reality.
Lee Jay Walker
http://leejaywalker.wordpress.com
Call the Afghanistan embassy in your country to express your concern:
United States: +1 202 483 6410
Canada: +1 613 563 4223
United Kingdom: + 44 207 589 88 91/2
Germany: +49 22 825 1925
France: +33 1 45 25 05 29
Australia: +61 2 62827311 6282/6034
For interviews, contact Aidan Clay, Regional Manager for the Middle East: clay@persecution.org




Muslim fanatics murder innocents in Afghanistan
Muslim fanatics murder innocents in Afghanistan
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Afghanistan is beset with so many problems and this applies to a major Islamic insurgency which desires to rule by fear and keep women in chains. The Taliban supports killing apostates, denying equality of education for women, killing homosexuals, persecuting Shia Muslims, stoning people to death for adultery, and other draconian ways and they base all of this on Islamic Sharia law.
The recent Muslim rampage against innocents in Afghanistan was distanced by the Taliban and this may be factual because this massacre did not have their hallmark. This in itself compounds the problem and shows that hatred is embedded within elements of the “Sunni Muslim mindset” in Afghanistan.
The United Nations have helped to develop the infrastructure of Afghanistan and alongside other humanitarian agencies and national governments, trillions of dollars have been spent in order to create a better health care system, foster an education system which includes females, water sanitation projects, and countless other positive measures.
At no time does the United Nations or other agencies discriminate on the grounds of religion, ethnicity, sexuality, and so forth. Instead, nations and international agencies are trying to help Afghanistan but alas it appears to be a dead end because they are deemed to be infidels or collective infidels.
Therefore, when an unimportant individual decides to burn a Koran in America it is an excuse for “the followers of hate” to do what they are good at; therefore, they killed innocents and like usual several people were beheaded and the fear and hatred of this event can only be imagined.
The American Christian pastor who burnt the Koran is also a coward and a person of ignorance because converts to Christianity face the death penalty in Afghanistan and for Christians on the frontline in Pakistan then this will create more flames and hatred.
He fully understood the outcome of what he did but he felt brave from “thousands of miles away.” Therefore, Reverend Wayne Sapp who burnt the Koran alongside Reverend Terry Jones who started the ball rolling last year despite not burning the Koran himself; are no friends of Christians on the frontline.
Apparently they believe that the words of the Christian New Testament are not good enough therefore they turn to the lowest common denominator and this applies to burning a religious book.
Despite their actions it is clear that the “hatred in their hearts” is a million times below that of the Sunni Muslim fanatics who beheaded and killed in the name of Allah.
Reverend Wayne Sapp and Reverend Terry Jones belong to a small and unimportant Christian church but burning a book can’t be compared with killing people and beheading innocents.
They started the excuse but it is factual that the Sunni Muslim extremists were waiting for the spark in order to demonstrate their power and to strike fear into the hearts of moderate Muslims and secularists in Afghanistan.
It is strange that the same Sunni Muslim religious leaders who desire to rule by fear do virtually nothing to stop the rampant heroin trade in Afghanistan and of course when did they support religious equality, freedom for women, and so forth?
After all, all vestiges of Buddhism were destroyed by the Taliban and like the beheadings and brutal murders which just took place; both events witnessed the usual shouts of joy of “Allah Akbar” during the destruction of a culture and the murder of innocents.
Indeed, it is not just Sunni Islamic radicals in Afghanistan which desire to rule by fear because the government of Afghanistan supports killing apostates from Islam and this is the problem.
You have Sunni Islamic extremists who want to indoctrinate and keep women downtrodden and at the same time you have institutional discrimination and hatred within the laws of Afghanistan which support killing apostates.
Progressive Muslims, women, secularists, and non-Muslims in Afghanistan, face enormous obstacles and this applies to Sunni Islamic religious zealots, the government of Afghanistan which supports draconian laws and at the same time you have major cronyism and heroin is an ongoing nightmare.
Farhad Peikar who is based in Kabul wrote an article called UN officials beheaded in rampage over Koran building and he comments that “Eight United Nation workers have been killed, and as many as 13 other people are feared dead after a violent rampage in northern Afghanistan by demonstrators protesting over the burning of a Koran at a church in Florida in the US.”
Farhad Peikar continues by stating that “The victims of the worst-ever attack on UN personnel in Afghanistan– two of whom were beheaded — included four guards from Nepal, and civilian staff from Norway, Sweden and Romania. It was also confirmed that five residents were killed.”
In the article it highlights that Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, described the burning of the Koran as a “crime against religion.” This comment by Hamid Karzai is galling because Muslims who convert to Christianity face the death penalty in Afghanistan and they are put in prison and intimidated and persecuted.
The crime against religion was done by the killers and President Obama stated “The desecration of any holy text, including the Koran, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry,” he said. “However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity.”
“No religion tolerates the slaughter and beheading of innocent people, and there is no justification for such a dishonorable and deplorable act.”
I agree with most of what President Obama stated but it is factual that converts from Islam in nations like Saudi Arabia face the death penalty and this is based on Islamic Sharia law – therefore, religious freedom and killing is often sanctioned by some mainly Muslim nations and this reality needs to be tackled and recognized to be a clear violation of all notions of human rights.
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