Blogging Time
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil gets four years for insulting Islam and Hosni Mubarak … the United States needs to get all over that.
Big Pharoah, who is signing off for a while due to work demands, gets in a last word about Kareem, reform and the lack of outrage in Egypt:
Abdel Kareem will enjoy sympathy in the Egyptian street once Islam gets reformed. Once cussing Mohamed, Allah, whatever does not send you to prison or the gallows. If Abdel Kareem was living 500 years ago in Europe and he would have wrote the same thing about Christianity, he would have been burned at stake. Luckily Christianity got reformed, Christians in Europe understood that God would not be a very happy person if they imprisoned or killed someone who wrote/said something they considered offensive to the Christian faith. This is the reason why Dan Brown and Tom Hanks are still alive today.
One day Islam will reform and the future Abdel Kareems will not fear prison and execution anymore. In the meantime, we’re stuck with stupidity and cruelty.
Nothing from Egyptian Sandmonkey yet but worth checking.
Freekareem here.
Topics: Islam, blogs, middle east
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:33 am on Thursday, February 22, 2007
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February 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Nibbles — 2007.02.22
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February 22nd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Bill’s Nibbles — 2007.02.22
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