From Richard Dawkins: "In 2006 in Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman was sentenced to death for converting [only himself, not others] to Christianity... And this, remember, is not the Afghanistan of the Taliban but the 'liberated' Afghanistan of Hamid Karzai, set up by the American-led coalition... Mr. Rahman finally escaped execution, but only on a plea of insanity, and only after intense international pressure. He has now sought asylum in Italy, to avoid being murdered by zealots eager to do their Islamic duty. It is still an article of the constitution of 'liberated' Afghanistan that the penalty for apostasy is death."
By the way, I'll be taking off the rest of the week and so my next post will be monday. I hope you have a good thanksgiving. (On that note, two prior posts related to the giving of thanks can be found here and here.)