Via AP (via Michelle Malkin):
An Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has appealed for asylum in another country, the United Nations said Monday.
Malkin adds:
We, a nation whose founders embraced religious freedom as the "first liberty," should be first in line to offer Abdul Rahman a safe haven.
We'll second that motion.
Related:
Andrew McCarthy, writing for NRO, says the Rahman case was entirely predictable given the words of the Afghan constitution:
The State Department is midwife of a document fully reflective of a country that is 98-percent Muslim and in which the Taliban and al Qaeda remain forces to be reckoned with. It is a pervasively Islamic evergreen with a few shiny human-rights ornaments attached — the latter giving “democracy project” obsessives some cover for the inevitability that astonished Americans would one day come-a-callin’ to ask how, in the midst of our war against Muslim extremists, the United States could have abided the installation of Islam and its draconian law as ultimate authority in a country we had given American lives to liberate.
Read the whole thing.
