This isn’t what I’d call justice
A few months ago it was reported that an Afghan journalist named Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh was sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam. His crime was to print up a document that was critical of the religion and show it to a few of his colleagues.
But then we found out that after much outrage from the Western media, Kambakhsh would get to appeal the court ruling. Some social progress, no?
Perhaps not. We now know that though it is true that he gets to appeal the decision, he still has to prove that he didn’t commit blasphemy. So it’s not that the government came to its senses that it was utterly barbaric to kill someone for insulting Islam, it’s just giving him a second chance to profess his devotion to Allah.
