Many breathed a sigh of relief after yesterday’s announcement of the release of Said Musa, an Afghan convert to Christianity faced with possible execution on charges of apostasy. Despite the happy outcome, his case highlights a problem for Muslims that refuses to go away. After the debacle of a case against another Afghan convert, Abdul Rahman, in 2006, we thought we’d seen the last of these kinds of headlines, at least for the time being. Whenever such cases emerge Muslims in the West come under extra scrutiny. Questions are inevitably raised about our ability to function, along with the rest of the world, under the umbrella of universal human rights and in line with those freedoms that we cherish.
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