While Canadian soldiers are at risk and dying for Afghanistan, the government seeks to kill people who support womens' rights.

A journalism student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for circulating an essay on womens' rights. From the news report:

"Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him - without even hearing his defence.

It later emerged he was convicted by three mullahs, in secret, without access to a lawyer. The sentence was commuted to 20 years on appeal. At that appeal, in October, the key prosecution witness withdrew his testimony, claiming he had been forced to lie on pain of death. The prosecution then appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence. The defence appealed to quash his conviction altogether.

Mr Kambaksh was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death last year for circulating an essay on women's rights which questioned verses in the Koran."

I think it's utterly disgraceful that Canada is sacrificing blood and treasure for this backward society and system of law.