Senior Muslim clerics demanded yesterday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."
I'm fairly certain Ninme would say, "Way to play to your stereotypes, guys." But wait, let's hear from the moderates:
"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001.
And a little later:
"Cut off his head," he exclaimed, sitting in a courtyard outside Herati Mosque.
In this context, my next question is going to seem snide, but I mean it sincerely. If it's in the power of any random person to humiliate your god, are you sure he's God? I wouldn't think anyone had the power to add or subtract from God.
