Said Musa, A Christian In Afghanistan

[ExCorde]

I am in awe of such faith too... Didn't see this posted yet and a lot of us need to read his letter:

[url="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/i-am-in-awe-of-such-faith/"][b]An Afghanistan Christian and father of six, is imprisoned and scheduled to die. His crime? He believes Christ is his Savior. And he is scheduled to die because of it. No defense lawyer will take his case for fear of retribution. And he has been told that if he renounces Christ things would go easier. But he doesn’t. He won’t.[/b][/url]

[ExCorde]

[i]...Since that time I am in jail. The authority and prisoners in jail did many bad behaviour with me about my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. For example, they did sexual things with me, beat me by wood, by hands, by legs, put some things on my head, mocked me ‘He’s Jesus Christ’, spat on me, nobody let me for sleep night and day. Every person spat on me and beat me. Also the prosecutor wrote something wrong against me. He told from himself something wrong against me on my file.[/i]

[i]“He is stimulating every day the prisoners against me, ‘He is also in jail due to spy for Iran country’, to reveal the church in Kabul. I’m in a very and very bad condition in the jail.[/i]

[i]“I agree with long imprisonment about my faith even for long life. Because I’m the sinnest person in the world. Because sometimes they treated for died I refuse my faith due to died. Sometimes I tolerate the persecution but immediately I acknowledge my sin before Lord Jesus Christ: ‘Don’t refuse me before your holy angels and before your Father.’ Because I am very very weak and sinful man…[/i]

[MIKolbe]

May God, His Son, Spirit, Angels, and Saints be with him and close to him and his family. If there is a way out of this barbarism, please have this way present itself. If not, may his life and death in Christ be model and affirmation of love for the Church a seed for the Her in Afghanistan.

[Archaeology cat]

[Maximilianus]

[url="http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2011/02/sayed-musa-to-be-freed.html"]http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2011/02/sayed-musa-to-be-freed.html[/url]

[ExCorde]

He's free! However:

[b][url="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/world/asia/26kabul.html"]Afghan Officials Say Jailed Christian Convert Is Free[/url][/b]

[i]On Thursday, however, the same prosecutor said Mr. Mussa was released only after finally agreeing to return to Islam. [/i][i] “Mr. Mussa said in front of everyone in high court that ‘I made a mistake converting to Christianity and I want to return back to Islam,’ ” he said, adding that “we worked with Mr. Mussa for a long time to convince him to return back to Islam.” [/i]

And the situation in Pakistan is worsening, with Asia Bibi still in prison and leaders in the country who speak against blasphemy laws being killed recently, like the Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer in January and just a few days ago Shahbaz Bhatti, the only Christian member of Pakistan's cabinet.