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Old 02-22-2007, 06:33   #739
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Egyptian Court Sentences Blogger Charged With Insulting Islam to 4 Years in Prison

Such a beautiful tolerant religion......

Another step, jump backwards for egypt and islam.

Will those of you defending islam please explain this to me?

[Note to self, NEVER travel to egypt]

TS

Egyptian Court Sentences Blogger Charged With Insulting Islam to 4 Years in Prison
Thursday, February 22, 2007

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — An Egyptian blogger was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger.

Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University, an Islamic institution, had pleaded innocent to all charges, and human rights groups had called for his release.

Nabil, who used the blogger name Kareem Amer, had sharply criticized Al-Azhar on his Web log, calling it "the university of terrorism" and accusing it of suppressing free thought. He also often criticized Mubarak's regime on the blog.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253666,00.html
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