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Former President Jimmy Carter is calling for the U.N. Human Rights Commission to investigate the Abdul Rahman affair. ''I think there was racism involved in the United States interference with Afghanistan's sovereign right to execute criminals,'' said Carter. Raman converted to Christianity 10 years ago, an act recently discovered - by Mullah "Crazy Abdul" Nasrudin, a popular television used donkey cart salesman on the side - to carry a mandatory death sentence according to Islamic Law. The United States was thrown off the Human Rights Commission in 2001 for electing a Republican President, and replaced by Cuba.