Afghan Government Plans To Execute Christian For His Faith
"The Corner" on NRO has a critical piece that is slowly starting to receive the attention it deserves. Said Musa - an Afghan Christian, father of six, former soldier in the Afghan Army, and a worker at the Red Cross/Red Crescent - is facing execution for his faith, for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. Over the last few months, he has continued to face brutal persecution in prison as he explained in an impassioned plea for help: "They did sexual things with me, beat me by wood, by hands, by legs, put some things on my head.” Musa is not asking to be released. He is willing to die for his "faith in Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, [so] other believers will take courage and be strong in their faith.” He merely asks for a transfer to a different prison until his execution.
Paul Marshall writes for NRO,
"An American president certainly needs to guard and shepherd his political capital, and should not speak out about every prisoner. But Musa himself has appealed to “President Brother Obama” to rescue him from his current jail. And when an obscure and aberrant Florida pastor, Terry Jones, threatened to burn a Koran, not only President Obama but much of his cabinet, as well as General Petraeus, weighed in on the matter.
"If the actions of a Florida pastor who threatened to destroy a book holy to Muslims deserved public and presidential attention, then the actions of the Afghan government, ostensibly a ‘democratic’ ally, to destroy something holy to Christians, a human being made in the image of God, also deserve public and presidential attention."
Prominent Christian Leaders are beginning to respond, calling for intervention from the White House. Evangelical Pastor John Piper tweeted, "Mr. President, speak wisely and boldly, in private if necessary, for Said Musa, imprisoned in Kabul."
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Jan '11
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Does anybody really imagine President Obama will speak up in support of a Christian?
May '10
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I doubt he will publicly. I just hope there will be enough pressure that he'll do something behind the scenes.
Edited on Feb 20, 2011 at 1:29pmNov '10
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We have been through this before, with Abdul Rahman in 2006. President Bush spoke up for him then, as did a number of other world leaders; he was eventually released and gained refuge in Italy. Whether President Obama will do the same is still an open question, and I find that disheartening. I also think it's time the West started drawing very clear lines about just how far we will go in supporting regimes - such as Afghanistan's - that are fundamentally opposed to what we consider basic human rights.
Jul '10
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Why are we continuing to prop up a corrupt Sharia state?
May '10
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May '10
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Kenneth, I think it demonstrates a real confusion over whom we are actually fighting. Know thy enemy.
Jan '11
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Obama isn't going to do anything. Thanks for the help, Mr. President.
Nov '10
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This kind of story does make me reflect on the shallowness of my own faith, and that of most of us in the West, and on the recent discussions we've been having on the decline in our national character. When have we been willing to suffer like this poor Afghan for any higher cause?
May '10
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Completely agree Lucy. Musa puts us to shame
May '10
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Good of you to put this up, Brandon. I caught it on the Barnabas Fund newsletter today. BF has started a campaign and has got a petition going. It's gratifying to see John Piper getting behind this as well.
Courageous man, Musa. Hope this ignites something among Christians and beyond.
Edited on Feb 21, 2011 at 12:19amDec '10
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You mean "fellow Christian," don't you? Otherwise you'll be harangued by David Gregory.
Dec '10
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But enough about Great Britain!
Thank you. Try the veal.
Aug '10
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Don't know if Google is doing ad placement on the comments section, but the Free Government Supported Phones ad in this one would be a small start. If they can give away phones, buy advertising on the web and crow about their compassion, perhaps they can parlay some quid pro quo into the billions of dollars being sent to Kabul and release one man, well there is another, next door in Pakistan, Raymond Davis. If Hillary reached out now it could be an auspicious start to her campaign with some evidence that she's rejoining the human race.
Edited on Feb 21, 2011 at 5:12amMay '10
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Even if he is not executed, shedding more American blood to support barbarism like this is insane.
Nov '10
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Andy McCarthy, on NRO, points out that this event shows that we are indeed propping up a sharia state in Afghanistan, and agrees that we should just get out. It seems clear that if we don't have enough control over the place to stop this kind of atrocity, we have no business being there.
Edited on Feb 21, 2011 at 6:20amJul '10
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I see the time soon coming when Obama must squarely face the mirror and ask: "Would this help or hurt me?"
Oct '10
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Of course, this is nothing new in the Islamic world. Our close friends, the Saudis, do this any time a Muslim converts to Christianity and it becomes known. In the past I have named several Pakistani and Afghan Christian friends who have been martyred. In each case, there was no direct government involvement in their deaths, and no government effort whatsoever to charge those who were involved. So, why are we fighting in the Middle-East?? Because we indulge a peculiar vanity that all the world want to be just like us.
Truth is, we have a significant population of deluded individuals who, themselves, do not want to be like us. They indulge fantasies like leftism and Islamism. So, not only are the Muslims content to murder Christians, but a significant population here are quite content with it also.
May '10
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Lucy Pevensie: Andy McCarthy, on NRO, points out that this event shows that we are indeed propping up a sharia state in Afghanistan, and agrees that we should just get out. It seems clear that if we don't have enough control over the place to stop this kind of atrocity, we have no business being there. · Feb 21 at 6:14am
Edited on Feb 21 at 06:20 am
Agreed. As a member of our Armed services with one deployment under my belt and another deployment to Afghanistan upcoming, I'm willing to do my duty with no questions asked. As a citizen, though, looking strictly at the policy, I am less than sanguine about the wisdom of continuing our military operations in Afghanistan or in that part of the world. The divide seems more ideological than we care to admit. We act as though changing the form of government will alter the basic creedal presuppositions of Islam. I doubt that's the case. It seems more a war for the missionary than the soldier. If we insist on our troops being there, however, the least we can do is protect the missionary and convert.
Nov '10
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Brandon Zaffini
Agreed. As a member of our Armed services with one deployment under my belt and another deployment to Afghanistan upcoming, I'm willing to do my duty with no questions asked. As a citizen, though, looking strictly at the policy, I am less than sanguine about the wisdom of continuing our military operations in Afghanistan or in that part of the world. The divide seems more ideological than we care to admit. We act as though changing the form of government will alter the basic creedal presuppositions of Islam. I doubt that's the case. It seems more a war for the missionary than the soldier. If we insist on our troops being there, however, the least we can do is protect the missionary and convert.
Thank you for your service, Brandon. I'll pray you stay safe, and hope that your service will be in a good cause.
Sep '10
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I'm making my through the Koran now. I'm about halfway through. Stories like this no longer surprise me. Scary stuff.