{"id":9491,"date":"2011-02-14T01:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T06:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2011-02-14T02:06:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:06:31","slug":"afghan-christian-convert-set-to-be-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/afghan-christian-convert-set-to-be-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Christian Convert Set to be Executed"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted previously<\/a>, Said Musa has been imprisoned in Afghanistan for the crime of converting to Christianity.\u00a0 According to some articles, he has been sentenced to be hanged<\/a> (and, depending on timing, may have been already).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The World Evangelical Alliance\u2019s Religious Liberty Commission has protested<\/a>, claiming this violates Afghanistan’s own Constitution.\u00a0 The article also notes that<\/p>\n

Afghanistan is ranked No. 3 on Open Doors\u2019 World Watch List of countries with the worst Christian persecution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As noted at the Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, the US government has called on Afghanistan to<\/p>\n

respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document endorsed by Afghanistan that upholds freedom of religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Afghan authorities reportedly hold two men prisoner after they converted to Christianity (one mentioned here<\/a>), for which they could face the death penalty.\u00a0 The Afghan government’s response?<\/p>\n

Afghan officials have been unapologetic.\u00a0 “The sentence for a convert is death and there is no exception,” said Jamal Khan, chief of staff at the Ministry of Justice.\u00a0 “They must be sentenced to death to serve as a lesson for others.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The US military is actively allied with the Afghan government in its fight against the insurgency.\u00a0 A column at the American Spectator<\/em><\/a> wonders if this<\/em> is the kind of “freedom” for which “our Soldiers are dying” in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Via the Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As noted previously, Said Musa has been imprisoned in Afghanistan for the crime of converting to Christianity.\u00a0 According to some articles, he has been sentenced to be hanged (and, depending on timing, may have been already).\u00a0 The World Evangelical Alliance\u2019s Religious Liberty Commission has protested, claiming this violates Afghanistan’s own Constitution.\u00a0 The article also notes that Afghanistan is ranked No. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,1458,96,2,1459,10,171,1174,1457],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-american-spectator","tag-christian","tag-military","tag-persecution","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-said-musa","tag-world-evangelical-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}