Whose Job is it?

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Abdul Raman seems to have committed the unforgivable Islamic sin: religious conversion. This sin according to Sharia Law demands the death penalty, and even as I type this his case is making headlines worldwide. Americans (including even president Bush) are now wondering what, exactly, our soldiers died in Afghanistan to create: Sharia Democracy? And if so, what could that possibly be? Sounds... so... strange...

I've been reading recently about the Koranic attitude concerning conversion away from the Muslim religion (The End of Faith, pages 117-123) and the koranic quotations therein fit quite well with the notion that the Koran demands death as punishment for such conversion. (Interestingly, foreskin restoration is not covered anywhere in those verses, but it seems reasonable to assume that if The Prophet had heard of it, that procedure would also have been covered.) The inevitable conclusion, it seems to me, is that fundamentalist Muslim religion is incompatible with modern political notions of Democracy.

Does Bush realize this? Shouldn't he? He's the president. Isn't that his job? No?

Then whose job is it?