Abdul Rahman

An Afghan who faced a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity has arrived in Italy where he has been granted asylum.
Abdul Rahman was freed in Afghanistan on Monday after being deemed mentally unfit to stand trial on a charge of apostasy (Conversion, or apostasy, is a crime under Afghanistan's Islamic law). Afghan MPs had earlier demanded 41 year-old Rahman, should remain in the country.
Afghan convert 'arrives in Italy'

Execute someone for converting to Christianity? I'm sorry but I thought this attitude was consigned to the dustbin of history, after US-led forces drove the Taleban from power.
Back in 2001, the Taleban demolished two giant Buddhist statues which were cut into the Afghan mountainside between the second and fifth centuries AD. These statues were among Asia's great archaeological treasures but to the blinkered Taleban, they were idolatrous and contrary to their perception of Islam. So how has attitudes changed in the "new" Afghanistan today, where a Muslim can be condemned to death for wanting to read the holy Bible instead of the holy Qur'an?