PIETY OR PRIDE in AFGHANISTAN?

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Abdul Rahman a convert of 16 years to Christianity is in danger of death under Sharia Law in Afghanistan, his family having reported against him. World media so far is not exactly shouting aloud the intolerable situation though report has made it to the Washington Times.

Supreme Court judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada meaninglessly and illogically told Associated Press: "We are not against any particular religion in the world. But in Afghanistan, this sort of thing is against the law," "It is an attack on Islam. ... The prosecutor is asking for the death penalty."

It is a mighty insecure religion and an incredibly insular culture and law that in a country where 99 per cent of the population is Muslim and most of the rest Hindu, perceives itself as under “attack” because one individual turns Christian! More like the local population feels it has lost face, in short its pride is under attack! As to what the laws might be representing and defending in such an isolated case bullying under the guise of piety might be another way of putting it! The situation in “modern” Afghanistan sounds much akin to that of the medieval Inquisition in Europe where greedy people and relatives could accuse individuals of false ideas to obtain their lands and get away with it.

This is the first charge of its kind since the Taliban was ousted, something most of the population are supposed to have wanted whether or not they wanted specifically American intervention to achieve it. But if this is all the effect, all the democracy western involvement upon Afghan society has managed to have, it might as well not have been there. Nothing substantial has been changed or learned.