Help Abdul Rahman. Call the White House (202-456-1111, FAX 202-456-2461). Contact the Afghanistan embassy (202-483-6410, FAX 202-483-6488). Contact Congress.

Voice of the Martyrs can be reached here. This is an organization that works to free persecuted Christians.

LaShawn Barber has more.

Italy and Germany are joining the campaign to save Mr. Rahman.

Michelle Malkin has more here.

Pray for Abdul Rahman.

Update: The Times of London has picked up the story of Abdul Rahman.

So is Mark Tapscott…

He wants to know where all the libs are from Hollywood to the liberal Protestant denominations to CAIR.

Where are Hollywood and the Glitterati? Where are Barbara Streisand? Where is Cindy Sheehan? George Clooney? Sean Penn? All the rest of the intellectual elite of the entertainment world who think it their inherent right to instruct the rest of us on the virtues of tolerating everything from porn to persecution? Everything except the simple faith of one Christian man standing by himself in a Muslim nation.

Right on Mark.

Abdul Rahman, the Afghan man who left the madness of Islam to embrace true peace in the name of Jesus Christ still stands condemned by a “judge” in Afghanistan.

Of course the “judge” in this case has already decided the outcome since he is still trapped in the archaic thinking of the 7th century Taliban. The evidence? Abdul Rahman possesses a Bible. It would be laughable if this brave man’s life wasn’t on the line.

Ah, but the “judge” in the case, with a deeply passionate understanding of tolerance, has this to say (via Junkyard Blog) …

“We will ask him if he has changed his mind about being a Christian,” Mawlazezadah says. “If he has, we will forgive him, because Islam is a religion of tolerance.”

Sorry “judge” but, as Junkyard Blog points out, that is totalitarianism.

Good chance they are torturing Mr. Rahman now to get him to recant.

Clearly the Muslims don’t believe what they claim to believe. Clearly they have no faith in the god they worship. If what they present is true then people would be flocking to Islam by choice. And the adherents would never want to leave. But that is not the case with Muslims. This is a religion that is propagated by force. It is a religious tyranny that only survives through fear, terror, and intimidation. That’s the point of this trial of Mr. Rahman. It is to make clear to everyone else not to dare consider leaving Islam.

Let me offer a challenge to the Muslim leadership around the world. Open up the marketplace of ideas. Let your people go. Let your captives choose without fear of death or torture. And we will see how appealing Islam is to the people. We will see its ‘truth.’

Everyone but the so-called mainstream media (with the exception of ABC) is picking up the story of Abdul Rahman.

Michelle Malkin has great coverage. International Christian Concern is appealing to the Afghan President.

And the campaign is underway to free Abdul Rahman. You can help here, here, and here.

Why not take a moment right now to pray for Abdul Rahman. Pray too for his captors that they may be graced with the light of truth. Jesus said, “You shall know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.” May God’s grace and His boldness give Mr. Rahman a testimony to his captors.

Wow. Must be a busy news day in Arizona. This made the paper.

It was a very small army that protested the Iraq war Friday outside the Scottsdale offices of U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth.

Only two peace activists stood near Raintree Drive and Northsight Boulevard, holding anti-war posters for passing cars to see.

Without knowing the first thing about actuarial processes or how insurance companies set rates, my gut reaction as that this is just more whining. If having less education or a different occupation puts you in a higher risk category statistically, it would be ridiculous for an insurance company to give you the same rate as someone with more education and an occupation that statistically carries a higher risk.

Under Geico’s guidelines, he said, a New Orleans factory worker without a high school education would pay $2,636 for insurance, 91 percent more the $1,382 that a white-collar worker with a graduate degree would pay for the same vehicle and location.

“There is clearly a disparate impact on minorities and lower income people,” Hunter said in an interview. “If it isn’t violative of the law, it should be. It strikes me as very unfair.”

In a March 14 letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the CFA said Geico’s use of educational status alone to determine rates allows it to bypass prohibitions on using income as a guideline for setting rates, on the grounds that doing so is racially discriminatory.

“What is very troubling is that Geico appears to be using these guidelines as a de facto rating method,” it said. “Geico’s methodology is reprehensible because not everyone has the opportunity or can afford to pursue a four-year college degree.”

I guess some things in life are just not fair. Stop the whining. I was a 20 year old kid once and I had high car insurance rates. If I smoke I would expect higher life insurance rates. If statistically someone with a lower educational level is more likely to wreck their car (or maybe it puts them at a higher risk of not paying their premiums, or not paying them on time (basically a credit issue), which would add to Geico’s cost of managing the policy), then make them pay more for insurance. Nothing wrong with that.