Article

2006-03-22 Afghanistan

Abdul Rahman : We are amazed (Jihad watch)

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-22 09:52|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The gist of this was that an American minister who was in charge of some interfaith dialogue with Islam was Amazed that the Afghan constitution would allow death to apostates.

Robert Spencer was amazed at the minister's ignorance.

I'm not amazed at all. The overwhelming majority of clergy get their info on Islam from personal contact or from dumbed down warm and fuzzy essays and the like. Thus, they are vulnerable to misinformation.

Posted by mhw 2006-03-22 10:58|| 2006-03-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#2 The Bishop of Rochester, the Right Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, who leads the Church of Englands dialogue with Islam, told The Times: Im amazed that the constitution that has been agreed in post-Taleban Afghanistan under the very eyes of the international community should allow this kind of thing to take place for a person to be arrested for having been converted 14 years ago and to be threatened with execution simply for his beliefs."

He is an English bishop, even though some American Episcopalian clergy are also that willfully naive.

Posted by ed 2006-03-22 12:01|| 2006-03-22 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Not Spencer, but the windbag Hugh that posts on his site.

(Not saying the guy's wrong or a bad guy, just that he routinely takes 100 words when 5 would do.)

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-22 12:08|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-22 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Im amazed that the constitution . . .has been agreed in post-Taleban Afghanistan under the very eyes of the international community

hey. these laws exist throughout the islamic world. does he expect that afghanistan would be different?

or maybe he isn't aware of how bereft of civilized notions is the islamic world?

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2006-03-22 12:47|| 2006-03-22 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 the eyes of the world slowly come into focus

Posted by bk 2006-03-22 15:18|| 2006-03-22 15:18|| Front Page Top

#6 bk: Faster please.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2006-03-22 21:46|| 2006-03-22 21:46|| Front Page Top

00:00 RWV
23:58 Phil
23:48 JosephMendiola
23:38 JosephMendiola
23:32 Asymmetrical Triangulation
23:27 SPoD
23:25 JosephMendiola
23:24 SPoD
23:20 SPoD
23:18 Asymmetrical Triangulation
23:17 Alaska Paul
23:15 SPoD
23:11 SPoD
23:07 Phil
23:00 SPoD
22:48 djohn66
22:32 trailing wife
22:29 Zhang Fei
22:27 Barbara Skolaut
22:26 Zhang Fei
22:17 Zhang Fei
22:08 bombay
22:06 trailing wife
22:05 JAB