Afghanistan’s first amendment…or lack thereof

"Hearing stories like this makes me question whether or not everything we are doing here is worth it. Is this part of the freedom and democracy mission for the Afghan people we’re supposed to be risking our lives for?
A journalism student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death for insulting Islam by distributing a report from the internet at his university which questioned the oppression of women in some Muslim societies by extremists who manipulate the Koran, part of which debated why it was permitted for Muslim men to have multiple wives yet women cannot have multiple husbands. The courts here are still meeting on the issue, although Karzai holds power to veto any decision from the courts. When looking up this article I found it wasn’t the first time a sentence like this has happened. In 2006 an Afghan man, whose family turned him for converting to Christianity, was facing the death penalty also, but he was granted asylum in Italy and avoided sentencing."
Afghan Vacation