Afghanistan: Journalist, Mullah Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Publishing Koran "With Errors".....

We can only do so much for these people.....

AN Afghan court has sentenced an ex-journalist and a mullah to 20 years in prison each for publishing a translation of the Koran alleged to contain errors, friends and media rights groups said today.Afghan and international media rights organisations condemned the sentences handed down yesterday and called on President Hamid Karzai to intervene.

Former journalist Ahmed Ghous Zalmai was arrested in November trying to escape into Pakistan as religious clerics and parliament were in an uproar about a Dari-language version of the Muslim holy book he had published. Mullah Qari Mushtaq, who was sentenced with him, had approved the version which other clerics and parliamentarians claimed contained errors and misunderstandings about issues such as homosexuality and adultery.

Critics also complained the book did not include the original Arabic text as required by Islamic law.

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Comments

[Elric66]

This is what democracy is to Muslims. I used to buy that freedom is an innate desire of all people but its not.

[Battlecat]

The entire Koran is an error.