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...Both his daughters mentioned that he had converted to Christianity and abandoned the religion of Islam but also described him as "jobless, lazy and cruel." His 14-year-old daughter Maria said that when her father returned to Afghanistan three years ago after spending many years in Germany and Pakistan he was a stranger to her. "He said he was my father but he hasn't behaved like a father since he came back to Afghanistan. He threatens us and we are all afraid of him and he doesn't believe in the religion of Islam," her statement said...
...ubiquitous operating system; Bart Ehrman, the biblical scholar who wrote Misquoting Jesus, a book on how biblical texts, through error or intent, changed over the past 2,000 years; and Reza Aslan, who wrote No God but God, a book about what's really going on with Islam and the West, debunking the "clash of civilizations" argument...
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...
...last month, the Pope abruptly pulled the British-born Fitzgerald out of Rome and sent him to be the Vatican?s representative in Egypt, a "nuncio" posting that doesn?t come with a Cardinal promotion. Since Fitzerald had forged a rather soft policy as Rome's point man on Islam, the move was initially seen as another sign that Benedict is hardening the Vatican?s line on relations with Islam. In fact, the move was as much an administrative realigment: two weeks after Fitzgerald's appointment, his former office was merged with the Pontifical Council for Culture - and two more...
...such as Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko. Russia has pushed back by pressuring allies in Central Asia to distance themselves from the U.S. - Uzbekistan, for example, asked the U.S. to close the main airbase servicing U.S. forces in Afghanistan after Washington challenged human rights violations by the regime of President Islam Kharimov...