Abdul Rahman, 41, is on trial for his life in a Kabul court for the crime of converting to Christianity 16 years ago.* Abdul Rahman, 41, is on trial for his life in a Kabul court for the crime of converting to Christianity 16 years ago. When Rahman converted, he was working with Afghan refugees Afghan refugees (known as Muhajir Afghans in South Asia) are people who fled Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and during the civil war that followed. Since the early 1980s to the late 1990s, there were approximately 3 million Afghan refugees staying in in Peshawar, Pakistan; he then moved to Germany before returning home in 2002. The constitution of liberated Afghanistan is partly based on sharia law Noun 1. sharia law - the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed; "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state" Islamic law, sharia, shariah, shariah law , under which Muslims may not leave their faith. But liberated Afghanistan is itself based on the exertions of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . We do not expect to sow the world with clones of ourselves; we deal with established tyrannies (Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. , China) all the time. But we will not spend our blood and
treasure to install and defend a state that indulges such gross
injustice. Europeans began to learn the lesson four centuries ago:
"The conscience of man is the seat and throne of God in him"
(Robert Barclay, 1678). Now they come for the Christians; next they will
come for the unveiled, the shaven, and the music lovers.
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