Blasphemy case shows Afghan divide

Sayed Pervez Kambaksh's sentence has generated much controversy

From BBC of all places, an accurate look at the true workings of Islam and Sahria. A young man in Afghanistan, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, has been sentenced to death by a Sharia court in a five minute "trial" for downloading information on women's rights from the internet.

Here's a quote from a well respected Muslim "scholar" that demonstrates just how barbaric Islam really is:
"Kambaksh has deviated from religion, and Islam orders that he must be executed," said Enayatullah Baleegh, a member of the Islamic ulema council and a popular and well-respected Muslim scholar."
This is what is taken as mainstream and "normal" in an Islamic society.

FROM BBC.CO.UK:

Blasphemy case shows Afghan divide
Alastair Leithead
BBC News, Kabul

In Kabul's grim and crowded central prison, a 23-year-old student from northern Afghanistan spends each day wondering if and when he will be put to death.
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh was sentenced in January, in five minutes, at a local court in Mazar-e-Sharif, with no legal representation to defend charges of blasphemy after reports he had downloaded from the internet un-Islamic material on women's rights.
"I don't know what will happen to me," he said from the prison office where we were allowed half an hour to interview him.
"My trial was unfair from the beginning. From day one, they have been treating me very harshly as a criminal, not a suspect, and I don't know who has done this to me.
"My case has been politicised - my lawyer has been threatened. I have lost nine months of my life now in four prisons," he said.
'Deviated from religion'
There is an appeals process but his family have little faith in it - there have been many delays and little information.
The international community has raised the issue and asked for Sayed Pervez Kambaksh to be pardoned or released, but the case is a glaring example of the conflict between conservative Islam and the liberal Western views of Afghanistan's international backers.
"Kambaksh has deviated from religion, and Islam orders that he must be executed," said Enayatullah Baleegh, a member of the Islamic ulema council and a popular and well-respected Muslim scholar.
"The courts of Afghanistan, as per the constitution, have sentenced him to death and we certify this 100%," he said.
This is not the voice of an extremist minority, Enayatullah Baleegh delivers his religious guidance at one of Kabul's main mosques and on state-run television every week.
He advised against us visiting the mosque to hear his message at Friday prayers, as he said some of those present might object to our presence.
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