Muslim Persecution in Aghanistan

I have been following the story on Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan. I came across a Chrisian website entitled the AfganTimes.com. It turns out someone is reporting Christian news from Afghanistan to great peril to their life. As it turns out Rahman's case has been taken up by the Afghan government and so what happens to him (good or bad) will be on the government. Apparently their is a huge amount of extra-governmental persecution of the few but brave Christians that are in Afghanistan by the still influential Taliban. Below are some brief summaries of this persecution from the AfghanTimes.com website. Each summary has a link for further elaboration. As you read these summaries, the point of it all is that Mohammedanism is not a peaceful religion.
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Afghan Christian News
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Afghan Christian Faces Death Penalty for becoming ChristianA man by the name Abdul Rahman arrested and was asked publicly on an Afghan pubic TV:
Abdul was taken into custody and a court case has followed. The story hit public TV on Thursday, March 16. The newscaster stated that an Afghan citizen by the name of Abdul Rahman converted to the Christian religion 16 years ago.
He was questioned, "Do you confess that you have apostacized from Islam?"
He responded, "No, I am not an apostate, I believe in God."
Question: "Do you believe in the Koran?"
Response: "I believe in the Injil (New Testament) and love Jesus Christ." Read Related News from other News Groups
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Letter from Kabul
Religious freedom still in jeopardy under new Afghan government.
By a veteran Christian leader in Afghanistan
posted 04/21/2003

Editor's note: For security reasons, Christianity Today is granting anonymity to the author of this article.

Kabul has become a very, very busy place 18 months after Afghanistan was liberated. The city is full of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that hope to help Afghans rebuild their devastated country. More...
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Afghanistan - Thursday September 09, 2004
FIVE AFGHAN CHRISTIANS MARTYRED Taliban militants target converts to Christianity.
September 9 (Compass) ? Five Afghan men who had converted to Christianity have been killed in separate incidents since late June near the borders of eastern Afghanistan.

All five men were stabbed or beaten to death in summary executions by Taliban adherents who accused them of abandoning Islam and then ?spreading Christianity? in their communities.
The first stabbing death was reported on July 1 by Reuters news agency, which received a telephone call from a Taliban spokesman identifying himself as Abdul Latif Hakimi. More... Or here
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Afghan Christian Leader Received Death Threat Over The Telephone.
February 15 - Afghan Times - An Afghan Christian Leader in the United States received death threats over the telephone while he was having dinner with his family today when two different telephone calls where made within 20 minutes on the same day.

"The callers were saying that they are calling from Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates and threatening my children and I to death if we did not shut down our websites. Read More...
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Taliban Say Cut Throat of Afghan Christian
Reuters, July 1, 2004
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas say they cut the throat of a Muslim cleric after they discovered him propagating Christianity and warned foreign aid workers they would face similar treatment if they did the same. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi telephoned Reuters on Thursday to say that the guerrillas killed Maulawi Assadullah in the remote Awdand district of Ghazni province the previous day. More...
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Afghan Christian Websites Were Shut Down.
Memphis, Tennessee - Afghan Times Saturday, March 12, 2005

The Afghan Christians Websites which is a powerful source of spiritual equipment tools for the Afghans who turn to Jesus Christ as the only hope of salvation were shut down on March 1st through 5. More...