Religious freedom is not an American value; it is a universal human right.
Because it's a universal, "trans-national" human right, protecting it when it's threatened is not cultural hegemony; it's the duty of all free peoples everywhere - and every member-state of the UN. We should no more accept compulsion to practice any faith than accept slavery.
Because it's a universal, "trans-national" human right, protecting it when it's threatened is not cultural hegemony; it's the duty of all free peoples everywhere - and every member-state of the UN. We should no more accept compulsion to practice any faith than accept slavery.
TONY PERKINS/CSM:
The new Afghan Constitution incorporates the UN's Universal Declaration on Human Rights. That declaration's Article 18 specifically recognizes the right of all people to change their religion. Even to prepare a trial for a person who has committed this "crime" is a gross violation of that declaration, and of the new Afghan Constitution as well. ...RTWT. More HERE and HERE. And a complete roundup HERE.
Who can claim it is a just war that results in reestablishing a radical Islamic fundamentalist regime in Afghanistan? And what else can you call it if Christian converts are killed, or confined to mental institutions, Soviet-style, as the Afghan authorities are now reportedly considering? For freedom to endure it must first gain a foothold, and that foothold may well depend on the fate of Abdul Rahman.
(Tony Perkins, a former marine who served in the Gulf War, is the president of the Family Research Council.)
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