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Published Date: 23 January 2008
Afghanistan: A court has sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death after judges said an internet paper he printed and distributed violated the tenets of Islam.
The three-judge panel told Sayad Parwez Kambaksh the paper had humiliated Islam.

Mr Kambaksh's family said he had not been represented by a lawyer.

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  • Last Updated: 23 January 2008 10:12 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Urban Guerrilla,

Edinburgh 23/01/2008 11:25:33
> A court has sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death after judges said an internet paper he printed and distributed violated the tenets of Islam. The three-judge panel told Sayad Parwez Kambaksh the paper had humiliated Islam.

What humiliates Islam is not publishing papers on the internet but executing people for writing them.
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Let's have the truth,

Queensland 23/01/2008 11:42:32
....and this is what western soldiers are fighting and dieing for in Afghanistan?

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James (1),

23/01/2008 12:58:59
Seems reasonable to me! This religion has always come over as level headed, give and take types of belief.
It was a 3 judge panel so they are not going to be over zealous and unreasonable are they?
Respecting everyones beliefs and not trying to force it onto those that don't want it. Human Rights Act! Do they apply this?
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Maurice,

Fife 23/01/2008 13:03:25
Can this story be verified??
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Lynne,

USA....this from the BBC..#4 23/01/2008 14:32:49
Afghan 'blasphemy' death sentence An Afghan journalist has been sentenced to death by a provincial court for distributing "blasphemous" material.
Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, was arrested in 2007 after downloading material from the internet relating to the role of women in Islamic societies.
A primary court in Balkh province said that Kambakhsh had confessed to blasphemy and had to be punished.
The court also threatened to arrest any reporters who protested against Kambakhsh's sentence.
Kambakhsh, a student at Balkh University and a journalist for Jahan-e Naw (New World), was arrested in October 2007 after material he downloaded was deemed to be offensive to Islam.
Shamsur Rahman, the head of the court, told Reuters news agency: "According to... the Islamic law, Sayed Perwiz is sentenced to death at the first court.
"However, he will go through three more courts to declare his last punishment," he said.
'Deeply shocked'
Balkh province's deputy attorney general, Hafizullah Khaliqyar, warned other journalists that they would be arrested if they attempted to support Kambakhsh.
Kambakhsh did not do anything to justify his being detained or being given this sentence
Reporters Without Borders
But Agence France-Presse reported that journalists were gathering outside the home of the condemned reporter.
The sentence has been welcomed by conservative Islamic clerics in Afghanistan but criticised by international human rights groups.
Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it was "deeply shocked" by the trial and appealed to President Hamid Karzai to intervene "before it is too late".
In a statement, the group said the trial was "carried out in haste and without any concern for the law or for free expression, which is protected by the constitution".
"Kambakhsh did not do anything to justify his being detained or being given this sentence."
Kambakhsh's brother, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, said the verdict was "very unfair" and appealed for
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Lynne,

23/01/2008 14:33:34
continued..

Kambakhsh's brother, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, said the verdict was "very unfair" and appealed for help from the international community, reported Reuters.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/7204341.stm

Published: 2008/01/23 11:35:26 GMT

© BBC MMVIII

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Lynne,

USA 23/01/2008 14:34:38
#4..this is from MSNBC..

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22789664/
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Thorr,

Scotland 23/01/2008 14:42:39
Islam involves the worship of an intolerant Asian God!

The worship of a related god sent Europe into the dark ages, during which time we murdered many by burning them at the stake because the victim "insulted" the God, held or published views deemed to be heritical or simply denied the existance of the intolerant Asian God on the cross that our Europen ancestors chose to convert to abandoning our tolerant Pagan European Gods.

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Thorr,

Scotland 23/01/2008 14:50:13
post#8

Apologies, subsitute heretical for heritical!
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23/01/2008 15:45:58
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23/01/2008 18:05:24
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Silence of the Yams,

23/01/2008 20:00:41
11. Shut up and stop making excuses for these Mohammedan savages. I think it's time to ban all Islamic teaching from the UK, and all those who don't like it can go back to their ancestral shores. Islam offends me, and its practitioners are sick in the head.
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American,

23/01/2008 21:16:38
No wonder moderate islamists dont speak out. That peaceful religion will cause their tongues to be cut off if they did.
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American,

23/01/2008 21:19:41
#12- silence-am I accurate in thinking that the uk has alot of jew-haters like #11?
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Mine's an 80 bob,

Edinburgh 23/01/2008 22:06:29
10 Finnking

Clean up your act, don't be so anti West.
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Pilrig.,

Livingston 23/01/2008 23:36:45
8 - tolerant pagan European gods - such as Odin/Wotan with the blood eagle sacrifice beloved of his devotees ?
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Pilrig.,

Livingston 23/01/2008 23:38:18
14 - no. And the US is famed for such admirers of Judaism such as Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the late Bobby Fischer.....
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American,

24/01/2008 00:23:32
#17-pilrig.-Hey, Ford made an awesome looking 1965 mustang!
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St. Helena,

Peebles 24/01/2008 07:35:06
I now understand. We are spending a fortune and sacrificing many US, UK and other lives in Afganistan to ensure that students can be executed for writing an essay. I'm glad that strategic goal have been finally made clear. Carry on, chaps.
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Polly Ann,

24/01/2008 09:36:13
10 Finnking,Under a brige

Obviously your mission as a troll from the freehootsman site is to come here and try to inflame the threads with your constant anti UK and US comments. Wouldn't you rather go play in a busy traffic circle holding up a sign with "Bin Ladden is great" ?
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Sweet Sister Morphine,

Brisbane, Australia 25/01/2008 01:27:55
Given the general level of comments I have run across while trying to gather more information on this story, the only thing that surprises me is that people wonder why bringing democracy to Afghanistan has resulted in the country being taken over by reactionary idiots.

We westernite, common law, Westminster-system types have had had democracy, relative political stability, and a more or less unbroken rule of law for hundreds of years, and we still haven't managed to entirely get over our Christian intellectual baggage (Very peaceful religion, Christianity. Anyone read Leviticus or Deuteronomy?). It's been a long, painful process to get what we have today, and we're still only just winning the fight against reactionary idiots (from both sides of politics, I might add). Yet people expect Afghanistan to get their act together in a few short years.

I'm not saying that I approve of what is being done to Sayad Parwez Kambaksh. I hope to do what I can to prevent it. I just wish people would stop whining about how the wicked, backward Afghanis are so ungrateful that somebody has invaded their country *yet again*, when the average Afghani is probably no more or less intelligent than the average Scotsman or Australian, and many of them are really just their country's equivalent of the tattooed thugs who think it's a good idea to beat up anyone who doesn't follow the same football team. Culture and creed may vary, but stupidity is universal!

As for condemning Islam for being a violent, barbaric religion, I don't believe that it's any better or worse than any other religion. I would find the prospect of Christian fundamentalists, for example, taking over the government to be just as terrifying as Islamic 'fundamentalists'. Same goes for pretty much any other religion. The people we normally call 'fundamentalists' are just people who do the intellectual equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting "LA LA LA!" and try to ignore the fact that t
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Sweet Sister Morphine,

25/01/2008 01:31:08
-hat the world is changing around them and their rigid little set of rules can't cope with it. And like most people, they are so terrified, or possibly incapable doing their own thinking that they abdicate it to somebody else.



Stupid word-limit & non-functioning 'Preview' function. <_<

Hail Eris!
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Dr Gabriele Marranci ,

Aberdeen 25/01/2008 22:54:59
Dear all,

Karzai’s government lacks even the attempt to respect basic fundamental freedom of speech and the Afghan government’s clear fear to upset Talibanish Islamic judges shows the incredible masquerade that the US and Europe is ready to accept about Afghanistan.

Maybe we have just uplifted another masque, the one which covered the real interest behind the invasion of this tormented country.

It was a war of propaganda, a war which could have facilitated the acceptance of the real interest of Bush’s administration: Iraq and the redesigning of the Middle East. The hope of Afghan people and Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh’s rights (and possibly life) were never the real reason for the war.

Best wishes
Gabriele
For more you can read my blog at
http://marranci.wordpress.com
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