The Pessimist

I read this in the local paper this morning. It was just a little snippet of an article on page 7. Bookending this article was the death of two more Canadian soldiers to roadside bombs.

Afghan court orders death for journalism student
January 23, 2008
Record news services

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
An Afghan court sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death yesterday for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam.

The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh.

Kambaksh’s family and the head of a journalists’ group denounced the verdict and said Kambaksh was not represented by a lawyer at trial.

A clerics’ council had been pushing for Kambaksh to be punished.

Violated the tenets of Islam! What the fuck? This is a capital offense in Afghanistan!?!

Reread the article above. It doesn’t say that some wasabi imam thinks that this fellow should be put to death. An actual official Afghanistan court has actually found him guilty and sentenced him to death! Whether he has any right of appeal is not mentioned.

Canadian soldiers are not dying in this foresaken shit-hole so that some talibanized court can issue death sentences for printing leaflets or doubting the word of the prophet Mohamad (apostacy).

In a free country, one should be able to say that Allah has a small dick and is lived vicariously through the pedophile Muhammed, and that the followers of islam are hopelessly ignorant 9ths century barbarians.
Name calling can do no harm.

But when the legal structure of sharia law can order your head cut-off because it doesn’t think according to the limited vision of the koran, well, that is just wrong.

If Canadian soldiers want to do some good in Afghanistan, then they should start by taking Fazel Wahab and his two fellow judges off the bench, and shooting them.

At least, that’s what I think. And it’s a free country here, so it is my right to think it, and say it.