Said Musa, 45, has been held for eight months in a Kabul prison were he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by inmates and guards.
Mr Musa, who lost his left leg in a landmine explosion in the 1990s, has worked for the Red Cross for 15 years and helps to treat fellow amputees.
He was arrested in May last year as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy following a crackdown on Christians within Afghanistan.
He claims he was visited by a judge who told him he would be hanged within days unless he converted back to Islam.
But he remains defiant and said he would be willing to die for his faith.
He told the Sunday Times: 'My body is theirs to do what they want with.
'Only God can decide if my spirit goes to hell.'
Defence lawyers have refused to represent him, while others have dropped the case after receiving death threats.
Mr Musa was arrested after a TV station showed western men baptising Afghans during secret ceremonies.
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
2 comments:
I HATE that 'coexist' image. Every time I see it on a bumper sticker I want my bumper to closely coexist with the back of their car.
Several of the 'religions' and belief systems represented on that logo have specific tenets that forbid peaceful coexistence with those that believe something else.
When I read this story I almost blogged it but what was there to say except WTF are our soldiers doing dying to enable that?
Oh, and what Harper said. That image is utopia ballcocks of the worst possible kind.
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