Stardate 20010903.1336 (On Screen): The Taliban has gotten embarrassed by its arrest of 8 foreign-born Christian missionaries for the crime of converting Afghanis to Christianity, and is going to hold a show trial. The penalty if convicted is fewer days in jail than they've already been held, and they're going to be convicted, sentenced to "time already served", and deported. The Taliban won't have to admit that they screwed up, the missionaries will go home, and their governments (including the US) will heave a sigh of relief.
But that's not the trial I'm interested in. At the same time as these eight people were arrested, the Taliban 
also arrested 16 Afghanis for the crime of being converted to Christianity. And while the foreigners face a penalty of 3-10 days in jail, the Afghanis face the death penalty. Will they, too, receive open trials? Will their hands be slapped, or cut off? Will anyone in the world care? (discuss)
