We really need to do all we can to save this young man. He deserves OUR help. The least we can do is sign the online petition. Please take a minute of your time to sign this most urgent petition:
Save Sayed Pervez Kambaksh
Sincerely
Mark
Friday, February 01, 2008
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The Independent is running an online petition to save the young Afghan, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, who has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan simply for downloading material on women’s rights!
We really need to do all we can to save this young man. He deserves OUR help. The least we can do is sign the online petition. Please take a minute of your time to sign this most urgent petition:
Sincerely
Mark
We really need to do all we can to save this young man. He deserves OUR help. The least we can do is sign the online petition. Please take a minute of your time to sign this most urgent petition:
Sincerely
Mark
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This petition states the government should intercede on behalf of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh to prove that the government respects human rights and freedom of expression.
Where do they get the idea that a state with a democratically created constitutional clause expressly stating sharia trumps all law - respects 'human rights and freedom of expression"?
Sayed is a honorary distinction carried by direct decendants of the Prophet Muhammad. He is muslim, as proven in this letter written on his behalf by CPJ:
"Community elders from his home province of Saripul wrote a letter to the Balkh provincial court declaring Kambakhsh to be a good Muslim"
As a good muslim, he must accept sharia law.
Our soldiers liberated Afghanistan from Taliban oppression only to have this newly liberated population democratically establish their own oppressive, sharia compliant regime, thanks to George "Islam-is-a-religion-of peace" Bush.
Until we come to our senses and accept the fact that there is no such thing as a moderate islam,and finally ban sharia - we simply aid and abet this heinous activity.
As much as things change, they stay the same. For instance, read this famous quote from William Eaton:
"Considered as a nation, they are deplorably wretched, because they have no property in the soil to inspire an ambition to cultivate it. They are abject slaves to the despotism of their government, and they are humiliated by tyranny, the worst of all tyrannies, the despotism of priestcraft. They live in more solemn fear of the frowns of a bigot who has been dead and rotten above a thousand years, than of the living despot whose frown would cost them their lives... The ignorance, superstitious tradition and civil and religious tyranny, which depress the human mind here, exclude improvement of every kind…" - William Eaton, US Consul to Tunis, 1799
My compassion ends at the threshold of Islam. Anyone, of any age or sex, who holds Muhammad as his Prophet, uswa hasana al insan al kamil, - and all that stands for - is not worth my time, consideration or effort.
I will not sign this petition out of utter contempt for sharia.
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