Snake Legs “irrelevant in this specific case”.
I am not sure your argument is entirely correct. Perhaps I have misunderstood the point you were raising.
Consider the protesting that would go on in the USA if a person was threatened with death for choosing a faith.
It would be very difficult for a government to keep control of its population if they are free to protest and exercise the freedoms enjoyed in the USA.
Freedom of religion and freedom of speech and equal protection under the law are the most basic tenets of self-rule.
If the clerics allow those things un-impeded they will loose control of their nations just as surely as an invading army had marched across their land.
You can not truly have freedom of speech if you don’t have freedom of religion. In order to have freedom of speech and freedom of religion you MUST have equal protection under the law.
The fellow that converted will most likely be killed by some Muslim that gets fired up by the rhetoric a cleric of teaching. The convert will not receive equal protection under the law. If he doesn’t wind up being killed by the state and he doesn’t leave Afghanistan he will wind up begin killed by the citizenry.
It is my humble opinion that the reason we don’t see a truly Islamic country existing today is that freedom (to one degree or another) has spread to too many areas and true freedom of speech and equal protection under the law and Islam are at odds at the most basic of levels.
Thanks
Nimrod
