Converts Face Death, Taliban Leader Warns

The supreme leader of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement warned that any Afghan converting to Christianity or promoting other religions will be executed. In his decree, Mullah Mohammed Omar also warned booksellers that they face five years in prison if they sell material insulting Islam or promoting “wrong beliefs.” He warned that enemies of Islam based within Afghanistan and outside it--such as in Pakistan--were trying to seduce Muslims through money and other incentives to convert to Christianity or Judaism.