Thursday, October 23, 2008



Afghan student sentenced to 20 years for blasphemy

Must not raise questions about women's rights.
"An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence today for a journalism student accused of blasphemy and instead sentenced him to 20 years in prison. A three-judge panel sentenced 24-year old Parwez Kambakhsh to prison after a day of arguments between the student's defence lawyer and state witnesses.

Kambakhsh was studying journalism at Balkh University in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and writing for a local newspaper when he was arrested in October 2007. Prosecutors alleged that Kambakhsh disrupted classes by asking questions about women's rights under Islam. They also said he illegally distributed an article he printed off the internet that asks why Islam does not modernise to give women equal rights. He also allegedly scribbled his own comments on the paper.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

And these are the cretins we are fighting and dying to bring democracy to? Democracy will not take hold in the muslim world until civilization does. And that's a long way off, if ever.

Solution? Vaporize them. Now!

Anonymous said...

F***ing Islamic law. I can't wait until it takes over the U.S. It's coming, and it's coming sooner than you think.

Anonymous said...

Religion wrecks yet another life.

Anonymous said...

I'm with Anon 2. This is the system of laws in a country that we have sent our young men to fight and die for.
Surely if democracies are fighting for a country they should be fighting for basic democratic principles.
That said, women's enfranchisement is only around 100 years old even in the West. I guess this dates the system of governance in Afghanistan.

Anonymous said...

"Religion wrecks yet another life."

No, Islam wrecks yet another life. And another, and another, and another.