May 18, 2013
Washington Post notices sharia in Egypt: "Coptic Christian latest target of blasphemy frenzy"
Pigs must be flying. The Washington Post actually removed their lips from Morsi's sphincter for a moment to report on the vicious persecution and oppression of Christians in Egypt. Of course, they try to blame the ultra-super-duper-'conservative' Salafis when, in fact, it is sharia. It is Islamic law. In the next sentence the WaPo admits that, "criminalizing blasphemy was enshrined in the country’s Islamist-backed constitution that was adopted in December." Uh, so it's not just the religious Salafis imposing and enforcing the sharia.
Further, despite WaPo's attempts to equivocate, there is no comparison between the status of Christians before and after Mubarak. WaPo's misleading reportage on this further harms their already diminished journalistic credibility. Ask non-Muslims living in Egypt if they'd like Mubarak back. In. a. heartbeat.
The Washington Post continually self-enforces the sharia. They scrub and whitewash the most brutal and extreme ideology on the face of the earth. Worse, they smear, demonize and marginalize the few who speak out against these horrific human rights abuses. It is because of the tacit support of Western media and the political elite that these savages have risen from the ashes where they so rightfully belong.
(Ibrahim Zayed/ Associated Press ) - Abdel-Nour, the father of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, speaks on the phone to a live television show about his daughter from his home in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Freed on Tuesday on a 20,000-pound (nearly 3,000 dollars) bail after nearly a week in detention, Abdel-Nour is due to stand trial later this month. Criminalizing blasphemy was enshrined in the country’s new Islamist-backed constitution adopted in December.
"Coptic Christian latest target of blasphemy frenzy under Islamist-ruled Egypt"Washinton Post, May 18, 2013
CAIRO — The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, “All except the Prophet Muhammad.”
The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three of her pupils claimed that their children, aged 10, complained their teacher showed disgust when she spoke of Islam in class. According to the parents, Abdel-Nour, 24, told the children that Pope Shenouda, who led the Egyptian Coptic Church until his death last year, was better than the Prophet Muhammad.
Blasphemy charges were not uncommon in Egypt under the now-ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak’s regime, but there has been a surge in such cases in recent months, according to rights activists. The trend is widely seen as a reflection of the growing power and confidence of Islamists, particularly the ultraconservative Salafis.
“Salafis are the engineers of these stories,” said Abdel-Hamid Hassan, a Muslim and the head of the parents’ council at the primary school where Abdel-Nour teaches. Hassan’s daughter was among several students who denied any wrongdoing by Abdel-Nour.
“If the pope himself came here from the Vatican and tried to spread Christianity among us, he would fail. We learn about our religion starting from the age of 5,” he said, alluding to the allegation against Abdel-Nour, since withdrawn, of “spreading Christianity.”
Criminalizing blasphemy was enshrined in the country’s Islamist-backed constitution that was adopted in December.
Writers, activists and even a famous television comedian have been accused of blasphemy since then. But Christians seem to be the favorite target of Islamist prosecutors. Their fragile cases — the main basis of the case against Abdel-Nour’s case the testimony of children — are greeted with sympathy from courtroom judges with their own religious bias or who fear the wrath of Islamists, according to activists.
The result is a growing number of Egyptians, including many Christians, who have been convicted and sent to prison for blasphemy.
In at least one celebrated case, the offense was clearly provocative: Seven Coptic Christians living in the United States received death sentences in absentia for producing an anti-Islam film that sparked waves of protests by ultraconservative Islamists in front of U.S. embassies across the Arab world on Sept. 11, 2012.
But rights groups say the vast majority of blasphemy cases are merely attempts by Islamists to crack down on their opponents.
“Islamists are using the law to hunt down critics to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Christians are the weakest,” said Medhat Klada, a Switzerland-based Coptic Christian activist whose organization Copts United tracks such cases. “The numbers of Christians implicated is unprecedented,” he added.
Many believe that restrictions on freedoms are more severe under Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s first freely elected president, than during his predecessor’s 29-year reign.
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