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8 March 30 • 2006
Arab American organiza-
t was only a couple
tions.
of years ago when
The Arab American
a photo was taken
Institute declined com-
from the Oval Office. There
ment but directed me to
was Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad,
the Muslim Public Affairs
U.S. Ambassador to
Council Web site. They
Afghanistan, presenting
"called" on the Afghan
President Bush with an
government to release
Afghan ballot for the first
Rahman.
democratic election in
The Council on
Afghanistan on Oct: l8,
American-Islamic
2004.
Relations "urge[d] the government of
Democracy was forged that day.
Afghanistan to order the immediate
It was only a few weeks ago when
release of Mr. Abdul Rahman."
President Bush dedicated the new U.S.
With all due respect, if moderate
Embassy Building from inside the
Muslims want the world to side with
building in Kabul.
them on controversies like Danish
"It's in our nation's interest that
cartoons, the least they could do is
Afghanistan develop into a democra-
use the same wording. Try words like
cy:' he said March 1. "It's in the inter-
"outrage" and "condemnation," for
ests of the United States of America
example.
for there to be examples around the
President Karzai managed to save
world of what is possible, that it's
face with the ruling and hold off his
possible to replace tyrants with a free
critics who say that he has no real
society in which men and women are
respected, which young girls can go to power – the clerics do.
While Rahman sits in prison, wait-
school to realize their full potential, in
ing for a release and asking for a Bible,
which people are able to realize their
the clerics and more than a few hard-
dreams."
liners still want his head on a plate.
Does the concept of a free society
It'll be a difficult road for him.
include sentencing someone to die
If I were Abdul, I'd hail a cab to the
because of his religious beliefs?
newly dedicated embassy, and get a
Does realizing your dream include
ticket to the States. Abdul's first stop
reading your Bible from an Afghan
after arriving would be as a contestant
prison?
I wonder if Abdul Rahman is think- on "Deal or No Deal." He wouldn't
need to know English to pick out
ing those thoughts as he sits in a
maximum security prison in
Kabul.
Rahman, an Afghan Christian,
was on trial for converting from
Islam 16 years ago. He was
discovered last month by police
in possession of a Bible, but,
according to an Italian newspa-
per, Rahman's wife and children
ratted him out.
He was spared the death pen-
alty over the weekend because
Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassator to
the judges dismissed the trial
due to problems with evidence. Afghanistan and President Bush, 2004
Rahman may have been "men-
suitcases, and if he made some dough,
tally unfit" to face trial.
the show's host Howie Mandel could
To the hard-line Muslim clerics,
probably set him: up with one of the
conversion is only a one-way street
models to replace his Afghan wife. But
according to sharia law. Once in, you
with an ex like that, even a bearded,
stay. Try to leave, you pay with your
overweight stagehand would be an
life.
improvement.
What was also surprising was the
rather dispassionate reactions – if
Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
you could find them — coming from
the moderate Washington, D.C.-based hkirsbaum®thejewishnews.com .
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