The case against Afghani Christian Abdul Rahman has been dismissed. I do not pray often, but I will admit I prayed for this man. And I still do.
This incident points out once again that democracy is a process not an event. Do we have the patience to stick with it? I think that remains to be seen.
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Yes, we need to keep pushing them into Democracy, but we also need to understand that what they have now is not a Free Society. They have the classic Fear Society as defined by Natan Sharansky.
The people of Afghanistan are not free.
Sorry Bostonian, there is only one person whose comments are deleted on sight and you happened to run accross him before his comment was noticed.
You did manage to capture the essence of the reason that he is not welcome here, though. Mindless Kosling assertions unmoored from reality are just tiresome.
I think his preferred news source is Granma Internacional, though. Mother Jones is a rightist shill to him.
I saw a post at gatewaypundit {I think} about a young Afghan woman in the Parliament there. The people of Afghanistan are way behind and it will take a lot of citizens like the women brave enough to run for parliament to make a difference. But it will take a very long time. I just wonder if we will give up on them. But like david points out, the choices are limited.
someone posted yesterday that
if the man was released,both he and the judge would be
"unlikely to survive" the dismissal.
my prayers for them both.
Afghanistans's new gov't wouldn't have been worth much,imo,without this decision.
why are cases like this not
brought before the UN?
DOn't they have a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
thing or something?
did Bolton present this case to the UN or even make casual mention of such a gesture?
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