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Dar-ul-lfta, the council of religious scholars within the Supreme Court, has issued a fatwa against Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, chief editor of the monthly magazine “Haqoq-e-Zan” (“Women’s Rights”), ruling that he had contradicted verses of the Koran in his articles. Under Islamic or Shariah law, the punishment for apostasy includes the death penalty. Nasab was arrested on 1 October 2005 and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for blasphemy, for publishing allegedly anti-Islamic articles in his magazine.
I’m working on an essay for ProgressiveIslam.org and have come across this. Since my essay has to do with freedom of speech, this bit is pretty relevant.
Now, in my essay, I maintain a fairly civil tongue and attempt to address the issue with reason and calm.
But this is my blog. It’s my rumpus room, my stomping ground, which means I can say this:
If this is the sort of crap that the Afghan Dar-ul-Ifta is doing these days, then it is obvious that they are made up of a bunch of despicable, ignorant little pussies who don’t have the balls to fight words with words. “Off with his head!” is not a reasonable response, it is the response of cowardly eunuchs who haven’t half a brain with which to advocate and defend their beliefs. If this is the face of Afghan democracy, then let’s conquer them right and proper and impose western law by force.
Sovereignty is no cover for injustice. The Afghan Dar-ul-Ifta’s ruling is crap, unIslamic and reeks of cowardice. Grow up, you fools.
