As the Left continues to wail about the threat of a Bush-imposed theocracy emerging in the United States, the real thing is already present- in Afghanistan.
Michelle Malkin highlights the story of a man who converted from Islam to Christianity and who could now face the deasth sentence under the country's Islamic legal system.
Abdul Rahman, 40, was arrested last month, accused of converting to Christianity. Under Afghanistan's new constitution, minority religious rights are protected but Muslims are still subject to strict Islamic laws. And so, officially, Muslim-born Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and not for practicing Christianity.
On Thursday the prosecution told the court Rahman has rejected numerous offers to embrace Islam. Prosecuting attorney Abdul Wasi told the judge that the punishment should fit the crime. He says Rahman is a traitor to Islam and is like a cancer inside Afghanistan. Under Islamic law and under the Afghan constitution, he says, the defendant should be executed.
Despite the leaps and strides Afghanistan has made since the overthrow of the Taliban, it's still nothing like a modern, pluralistic society. And it never will be so long as Sharia law is enshrined in their constitution.
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