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.
Said Musa, who lost his leg from a landmine in the 1990’s and has worked since then as a medical worker for the Red Cross fitting children with prosthetics, has been in jail for eight months. According to a public letter written by him and addressed to our President and the world community, he has been brutally tortured and abused in every way possible, both by guards and inmates.
As of yet the media and the world seem to have taken little notice of Said Musa. There are currently less than 100 mentions of Musa in the news and most of them are not considered part of the mainstream media, other than the Wall Street Journal.
Musa wrote a public letter which I will excerpt here, courtesy of The Barnabus Fund. The English is rough but I think you’ll understand what he’s saying:
February 15, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Time to pray and to contact political action groups/politicians to demand action be taken in his defense…. Even as Christians who accept persecution for their faith, I think we are supposed to do what we can, however little.
February 15, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Where is the World Council of Churches or the Vatican?
February 15, 2011 at 3:50 pm
My heart goes out to Musa and his family as he is facing persecution for the faith he believes in.
February 15, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Where is the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights? The United Nations gets much money to defend human rights. Only Christians may not have any human rights.