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My latest on Washingtonpost.com - and a petition to sign
Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts on Feb 01, 2008
The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine co-host a popular blog called “On Faith.” This weekend, On Faith features my column about a 23-year-old Afghan journalism student who’s being sentenced to death.
He downloaded an Internet article that analyzes how the Qur’an treats women, thus outraging a group of mullahs. They got their day in court. He didn’t even get a lawyer.
The absurdity of a newly “liberated” Afghanistan that puts a bright mind to death for exercising freedom of inquiry boggles my own not-so-bright mind. Then again, you don’t need to be a genius to understand basic human rights.
Let’s exercise our own precious freedoms to become pro-active. Reporters Without Borders is circulating a petition to support this journalism student. Please sign. We need to generate the kind of international pressure that ensured the pardon of that Saudi gang-rape victim last December.
Our troops in Afghanistan shouldn’t be dying for nada.
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