KABUL, Afghanistan - Senior Muslim clerics demanded Thursday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."
The really sad thing is that one of the clerics calling for this man's death is actually considered to be a moderate. Evidently the Taliban kept jailing him for speaking out against their extreme ways.
Why did we even bother to invade Afghanistan? We sacrificed US blood and treasure for this? Pathetic. Clearly, being concerned about these peoples' oppression was the wrong thing to do. We should have just destroyed the Taliban, and installed a dictator that was friendly to US interests. Democracy and religious fanatics don't mix.
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