Editor of Afghan Women's Magazine Arrested for 'unIslamic' Articles

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBIW1SWEEE.html

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Freedom of speech is something Americans should never take for granted.

The editor of an Afghan women's rights magazine was jailed after a presidential adviser accused him of publishing un-Islamic material. Police arrested the magazine's editor, Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, on Saturday.

One article critizied the practice of punishing adultery with 100 lashes. Minority Shiite Muslim clerics in Kabul objected to that article and another in the monthly magazine that argued that giving up Islam was not a crime.

Afghanistan is a conservative Islamic country. Under a revised March 2004 media law, content deemed insulting to Islam is banned. Criminal penalties were left vaguely worded, leaving open the possibility of punishment in accordance with Shariah, or Islamic law

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Where's this democracy that we were supposed to bringing them?

:sarcasm:

[newswolf56]

2. Does anyone now doubt Bush's clandestine purpose is the reinforcement...

of Islamic theocracy?

Under a revised March 2004 media law, content deemed insulting to Islam is banned. Criminal penalties were left vaguely worded, leaving open the possibility of punishment in accordance with Shariah, or Islamic law.

Note the date: this is the "democracy" -- theocratic tyranny under which an editor can be flogged to death for offending the mullahs -- that was imposed on Afghanistan by George Bush.