Afghan Journalism Student Sentenced to Death For Paper 'Against Islam'

This is incredible. An Afghan court has found a 23 yr old Afghan journalism student guilty of violating the tenets of Islam and thus he has been sentenced to death.
What this young man did was simple - he printed off some materials off the internet and brought them to his college class to discuss with his professor and his classmates. The court, namely three judges, found the materials "humiliated" islam and thus this kid is going to die. HE DIDN'T EVEN WRITE THE PAPER!
A religion of peace, right? With all the bodies of innocents stacking up like cordwood, more people are going to start to agree with me that this is a political ideology based upon violence and intimidation.
And...just when you thought this outrage couldn't get any worse...get this - this young man's family was not even alerted about the trial. It was a secret trial. A family finds out the day after that not only was their son on trial, but he will soon die. And you call these people humans?
Oh...almost forgot...the kid wasn't given an attorney either. :spit:

Here's the full story.

Afghan journalist sentenced to death for distributing paper 'against
Islam'

An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh, where the trial took place. Wahab did not preside over the trial.
Kambaksh's family and the head of a journalists group denounced the verdict and said Kambaksh had not been represented by a lawyer at trial. Members of a clerics council had been pushing for Kambaksh to be punished.
The case now goes to the first of two appeals courts, Wahab said. Kambaksh will remain in custody during appeal; he has been in jail since October, Wahab said.
Wahab said he did not immediately have the details of the paper that Kambaksh circulated, other than that it was against Islam. Kambaksh discussed the paper with his teacher and classmates at Balkh University, and several students complained to the government, Wahab said.

Kambaksh's brother, Yacoubi Brahimi, described Tuesday's proceeding as a "secret trial," saying the family did not know it had been scheduled. Some have accused Kambaksh of writing the paper in question, but Brahimi said that his brother printed it off the Internet.
"He told them he didn't write this article," said Brahimi. "It was written by an Iranian."
Wahab said Kambaksh told the court that he could defend himself and did not need a lawyer. But Kambaksh's brother said his brother should have had an attorney.

Kambaksh's brother, Yacoubi Brahimi, described Tuesday's proceeding as a "secret trial," saying the family did not know it had been scheduled. Some have accused Kambaksh of writing the paper in question, but Brahimi said that his brother printed it off the Internet.