A Christian man facing the death penalty in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity from Islam will be evaluated for mental illness and will be "treated" instead of being executed by his government.
How long he remains in "treatment" or what it will consist of is unknown, but it is believed that Muslim clerics will have him killed on the streets if he simply walks out of jail. They have already threatened to incite their followers to do precisely that.
Western governments have been consulting with the Afghan government over this situation, but President Karzai and his people have done little, preferring to call call the man "crazy" or "insane" or "mentally ill." It's 12th Century thinking cloaked as 21st Century psychology. And since Afghanistan is under Islamic law, it won't change either.
In actuality, this Afghan Christian is probably saner than the clerics and religious authorities over there are.
His kids should be returned to him and he should be allowed to leave Afghanistan unharmed.
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