Christian Convert Said Freed From Afghani Prison

ABC News: Christian Convert Said Freed From Prison - after he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.

Now, I'm happy they released him, and maybe he'll even stay alive, if some Islamic fundamentalists don't decide to execute him on their own, while he is still in Afghanistan or once he returns home to Germany. I'm guessing this pretty much quashes any chance he'll be able to see his kids again, which is why he went back to Afghanistan to begin with, once the Taliban were removed from power.

Silly man. He forgot: Islamic law still runs the country.

You know, the same Islamic law that kills women who have been caught in adulterous affairs or accused of having an affair. No, the men aren't executed - after all, it was the woman's fault.

You know, the same Islamic law that throws raped women in prison and forces them to prove they weren't raped. No CSI or trained nurses to collect evidence with a rape kit, either. Oh, the women are allowed to try to find four men to vouch for her, but if she can't, bye bye! Most can't,of course, since even the suspicion of having been sexually assaulted is enough to dishonor her in the eyes of her "honorable" menfolk, so they'll kill her anyway.

But what does the declaration that the Christian Mr. Rahman is mentally unfit--that no one in their right mind would chose to follow any god but Allah--mean to the rest of us? That we're all crazy, too?

We must be, given who we proclaim to be our allies...

We must be, given that our auto companies continue to produce gas hogs at will, doing so little to produce vehicles that do not primarily rely on gasoline...

We must be, given that those empowered to push ahead research and development of alternative energy do so little, state of the union speeches and photo ops notwithstanding...

We must be crazy, given that we still are not acting like a significant number of real crazies are still out to get us...