From a Toronto Star editorial published Oct. 24 about Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the Afghan journalism student sentenced to 20 years for blasphemy:

However this murky travesty of justice plays out, the Harper government ought to issue a strong protest. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who can pardon criminals, should be told that Canadian taxpayers cannot be expected to fund a "justice" system that can condemn someone to death after a quickie trial, with inadequate defence, for raising basic questions about human rights in a university classroom.

This looks more like the Taliban than any court Canadians would recognize as such. Canada's troops are not fighting and dying in Afghanistan to make the place safe for religious zealots who hold human life in low regard.