The new, free Afghanistan...

[Dreckt]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4823874.stm

Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could face the death sentence under Sharia law unless he recants.

Afghanistan's post-Taleban constitution is based on Sharia law, and prosecutors in the case says this means Abdul Rahman, whose trial began last Thursday, should be put to death.

"We will invite him again because the religion of Islam is one of tolerance. We will ask him if he has changed his mind. If so we will forgive him," the judge told the BBC on Monday.

So much for the "liberation" of Afghanistan. But then again, the US have ties with Saudi Arabia...

[McLeft]

I read this news the other day on the Evening Standard (a London newspaper) and quite frankly I was utterly shocked. This means that the invasion and so called 'liberation' by Britain and the US is completely undermined. I'm not saying that it was fully justifiable but at least the Talibans are not in power anymore. Now i just think that the present government in Afghanistan is a bunch of democratically elected Talibans. This is very shocking.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

1. The people in power in Afghanistan aren't "democratically elected".

2. The US backed what would become the Taliban for years.