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Apostates speak.

No, you cannot convert: Three cheers for sharia!
Last August, I wrote about the plight of an ex-Muslim woman in Malaysia named Lina Joy. She had converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Christian man. As the Abdul Rahman case made chillingly clear to the world, there are dire consequences for leaving Islam. Joy bravely [...]

The stalwart Robert Spencer, author of yet another best-selling book the MSM doesn’t want to talk about, reports on continued death threats against Afghanistan apostate Abdul Rahman. Watch and learn.
Meanwhile, the Jyllands Posten has prevailed in a Danish court, which dismissed a lawsuit by Muslims offended by the paper’s publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed, Islam, [...]

Christian convert Abdul Rahman: Still a marked man
Remember Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert who fled Afghanistan and found safety in Italy after Muslim mobs demanded he be killed for abandoning Islam?
Well, while the rest of the world has forgotten about Rahman, the sharia-embracers and Koran-thumpers who believe all apostates should be murdered have not forgotten [...]

Apostasy. The last time I visited the subject, an ex-Muslim man’s life was at stake in Afghanistan. Remember Abdul Rahman?
Now, meet Lina Joy. Like Rahman, she was born Muslim, converted to Christianity, and is facing death threats for abandoning Islam. She wants to marry a fellow Christian man in her native Malaysia. A Muslim legal [...]

AP reporting this morning:
An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity quickly vanished Tuesday after he was released from prison, apparently out of fear for his life with Muslim clerics still demanding his death.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said he would ask his government to grant Abdul Rahman [...]

***scroll for updates…Video: Condi Rice thinks Afghanistan has “come a long way” because when the Taliban ruled, they “wantonly” executed people for playing music (as opposed to now, you know, where executions of people for abandoning Islam are contemplated in a much more civilized, non-wanton manner.)…Kofi Annan dodges…***

Abdul Rahman: Still not safe
Just in…But this story [...]

***scroll for updates…CAIR calls for Rahman to be freed…yes, CAIR…Australia joins the fray***

Cam Edwards of OnTap e-mailed me yesterday with an excellent idea–a rally for Abdul Rahman outside the Afghan embassy in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the D.C. Freepers, a permit has been submitted to the D.C. police.
Cam reports:
The way it works is the D.C. [...]

Over the weekend, I noted the trial of Muslim-born Abdul Rahman, who faces execution in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity.
The NYSun headlined the story on the front page today and blogs are all over it, but most of the MSM is ignoring the case.
ABC News is covering the story and adds new details:
Despite the overthrow [...]