Afghan Woman Imprisoned After Being Raped by Relative Has Been Freed by Karzai

Dear John,

I am happy Gulnaz is free. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8956626/Afghan-rape-victim-Gulnaz-freed-from-jail.html

Her release represents the same kind of progress we saw in the Catholic Church just a few hundred years ago when The Inquisition was not only imprisoning people – solely “on suspicion” of ideological deviation (without actually having done anything) -- but was also torturing them, quartering them and burning them at the stake. 

The Inquisition of The Catholic Church even burned to death some Catholic sainst - most notably, Joan of Arc.

The property belonging to Inquisition victims was then confiscated by “The Church.”

Convenient, no?

In “the big scheme of things,” it does not matter to me that Islamic countries trail Catholicism by a few hundred years.

Keeping things in perspective, it is a fact - plain as potatoes - that the Vatican authorized astonishing monstrosity – day in, day out -- and for centuries.

The Church authorized these monstrosities as recently as six of your "lifetimes" ago.

The church to which Jesus belonged would have stoned Gulnaz to death. 

True, Jesus himself would not have. 

But the church -- in which he participated as an observant member – would have. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Actions_which_demand_the_death_penalty_in_the_Old_Testament /// http://www.religioustolerance.org/exe_bibl1.htm 

I recommend “The Inquisition,” a documentary film made by The History Channel.

“The Inquisition” is freely streamable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGV4X4SWYiI

As Aquinas pointed out: 'All sin is accompanied by loss of perspective and proportion."

Pax on both houses,

Alan

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An Afghan woman whose plight gained international attention when she was imprisoned for adultery after a relative raped her has been freed.

The woman, identified only as Gulnaz for her own protection, had been sentenced to prison for 12 years after she reported that her cousin's husband had raped her two years ago. Wednesday, she was free after President Hamid Karzai intervened on her behalf.

The woman is staying at a women's shelter in Kabul with her daughter, whose father is the attacker.