The Afghan convert to Christianity who faced a possible death penalty in his homeland for renouncing Islam has arrived in Italy where he will be granted political asylum, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday.
Berlusconi said the man, Abdul Rahman, is in the hands of the country’s Interior Ministry, which is in charge of immigration.
“He is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight,” Berlusconi told Italian reporters.
An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed the case against Rahman, who converted to Christianity 16 years ago while working in Pakistan. The government freed him on Monday.
Rahman’s possible execution brought worldwide appeals for clemency from Western governments, including the United States, and religious leaders. Washington has held up Afghanistan as an emerging model of democracy in an Islamic country. Both Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Russian Orthodox patriarch, Alexy II, asked that he be spared.
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Christianity today is nothing but an elitist organization that operates under the false assumption that anyone not of the Christian faith is damned. May the Muslims of the world gain victory over all Christian whores!
May people of all faiths, cultures and countries mature; stop fighting for temporary victories and gains: and live their lives without operating for elitism, damnation, falsehoods, and other human failings.
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