Prominent Christian leaders are involving themselves in a mass Twitter campaign on behalf of Said Musa, an Afghan citizen who is presently waiting execution for converting to Christianity from Islam.
Musa was told by a judge that he would be hanged unless he agrees to reconvert to Islam.
Rick Warren, recently named as a top 20 Twitter celebrity by Forbes, lamented the fact that media has generally underreported Musa's story.
"Media CLAIM to champion free speech but if they really did, they'd report these stories everyday," Warren tweeted his 245,653 followers.
The Saddleback Church pastor and author of “Purpose Driven Life” also tweeted a link to a National Review Online article, "America Quiet on the Execution of Afghan Christian Said Musa."
The article asks why US President Barack Obama spoke to the threat by Pastor Terry Jones to burn the Qu'ran but has been totally quiet on Musa's situation.
"If the actions of a Florida pastor who threatened to destroy a book holy to Muslims deserved public and presidential attention, then the actions of the Afghan government, ostensibly a ‘democratic’ ally, to destroy something holy to Christians, a human being made in the image of God, also deserve public and presidential attention," asserted article author Paul Marshall.
John Piper and other prominent Christian leaders have all involved themselves in some way or the other in the Twitter campaign, with many appealing to President Obama to step in.
Musa is a physiotherapist, and also a former Red Cross worker who lost his left leg in a landmine explosion. The father of six has been imprisoned since last May, after he appeared in a video broadcasted by a local TV network that showed Afghan Christians being baptized by westerners. Musa was arrested as he attempted to seek asylum at the German Embassy.
Musa has shared that while in prison he has been sexually abused and beaten and spat on for his faith in Jesus Christ, but despite all these hardships he has refused to renounce his faith, informing the Sunday Times, “My body is theirs to do what they want with. Only God can decide if my spirit goes to hell.”
Human rights groups have also been active in the fight for Musa, as they have urged Afghanistan, a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to honor religious freedom and the freedom to change religions as mandated by the document.
(Image is of Said Musa).