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Egypt: Christian Teacher Gets Six Months In Prison For “Insulting Islam”

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Teaching anything other than Islam in a Muslim nation is dangerous enough as it is, but an accusation of “insulting Islam” in any way, shape or form is often an automatic death sentence, either by a state court based upon Sharia law, or the court of public dominion. May the protective hand of Christ be upon her …

Qur’an Sura 33:57, 61, “Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained … Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.”

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch – “The Muslim Brotherhood may be out of power, but clearly numerous Egyptians share their sensibilities. This case is reminiscent of the many blasphemy cases in Pakistan that were clearly exercises in harassing and intimidating that country’s non-Muslims. The al-Sisi government would do well to quash such prosecutions, but if it did, it might end up being toppled from power itself.

‘Coptic teacher gets 6 months in jail for ‘insulting Islam,’’Ahram Online, June 15, 2014:

Demiana Emad, a 23-year-old social studies teacher, was arrested on 9 May 2013 after the head of the parents’ association of Sheikh Sultan Primary School in Luxor filed a complaint accusing her of insulting Islam.

In June 2013, Emad was sentenced to pay a LE100,000 fine. Sunday’s jail sentence was ordered by the court in response to an appeal filed by the defendant on last year’s fine.

According to a year-old report by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), Emad didn’t insult Islam, only “presented a comparison between religions in ancient, middle and modern ages as mentioned in the curriculum”.

The report, which warned of similar cases becoming “a tool to oppress minorities“, added that during investigations the majority of Emad’s students denied that she had insulted Islam in her class.

Charges of insulting religion go back to the regime of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, widely used then as a pretext to crack down on political activists. However, occurrences of the charge significantly rose under the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who was removed from power last July.

A report issued by the EIPR last September revealed that since the 25 January 2011 revolution until the end of 2012, a total of 63 citizens, both Muslims and Christians, were charged with insulting religion.

Article 98 of Egypt’s penal code says anyone convicted of offending religion in any form can face up to six years in prison.

Source – Jihad Watch.

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    artiewhitefox
    06/15/2014 at 11:38 PM
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    Islam sees their god as being weak as a flag, a piece of cloth, a thin string of thread. They have to do what their invalid good for nothing god cannot do. That weak sniveling coward god who has no good in him is the devil. Muslims are exactly like him. The teacher is right. Muslims need to repent.

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