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Still, the right-wing furor over the Rahman case is likely to reverberate. To many Americans, the fact that Christian converts face prosecution in a country "liberated" by the U.S. in 2002 has bolstered the perception that the divide between Islam and the West is growing. Ansarullah Mawlavezada, the judge in charge of Rahman's fate, defends the independence of the Afghan judiciary. "In the West you allow two women to get married because that is the law, and I respect that. In Afghanistan we have Shari'a law, and the people respect and accept this," he told TIME last...
...Meanwhile, the judge presiding over the case has rejected international calls for leniency and warned the Karzai government not to interfere with the judicial process. Ansarullah Maulavizada appealed for the West to respect the independence of the Afghan judiciary. ?In the West you allow two women to get married because that is the law and I respect that,? he told TIME. ?In Afghanistan, we have Sharia law and the people respect and accept this...
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