Back in that Other Country, you know the one that harbored the men who actually attacked us in 2001. The spreading of Freedoms and Democracies is apparently not going so well over there.

For the first time since the fall of the Taliban's Islamic government four years ago, a journalist has been convicted by a Kabul court under the country's blasphemy laws.

Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, the editor of a monthly magazine for women called "Women's Rights," was sentenced Saturday to two years in prison by Kabul's primary court. The sentence will automatically go to appeal.
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The prosecutor called for the death penalty, accusing the editor of apostasy, the abandonment of the faith, so the sentence appeared to have been a compromise. But it is a reminder that Afghanistan is still ruled by the Islamic legal code, Shariah, and that on issues of religion, conservatives are determined to enforce it.
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This is not the first time that accusations of blasphemy have been raised against editors and writers under Mr. Karzai's government, but until now Mr. Raheen has managed to discourage convictions by the conservative judges and members of the Supreme Court.

"I don't want any kind of damage to the freedom of speech," he said. "I have been working very hard on this."

He added, "There are always some fanatics behind these things and they take sides very quickly."

I guess that Preznit Short-Bus Rider couldn't be bothered with actually spreading Freedoms and Democracy to Afghanistan. After all, the opium kick-backs laundered through his warlord buddies are probably pretty lucrative, and gee, why bother snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, he's never done it before, why start now?

In a hundred years historians will be sure to mark up the Invasion of Afghanistan as yet another of Preznit Elusive Success's many, many failures...and the first that fucked up a country. Followed by Iraq and sadly US.