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Egyptian blogger jailed for insulting Islam
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Published: 22.02.07, 18:08
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31. what gets you going
Libneniyyeh ,   Lebanon   (02.22.07)
is anyone who slanders Islam in the name of free opinion. It really makes your day, does it not? Blogs can be read by anyone, they are not private. Insulting any religion is not acceptable. Would you like it if someone publicly slandered Judaism? How can I, as a Muslim, remain quiet if someone says something wicked about Jesus (PBUH) or Abraham (PBUH) or Moses (PBUH) or any other prophet or his teachings? Yes, it is a blasphemy to ridicule them. So how how can you be gleeful when someone slanders Islam, or Mohammad (PBUH)? Sick.
32. 4 & 8
bernard ,   hu' af stan   (02.22.07)
tonight: milud, gamal, mahmud or who the hell ever ; you were about to achieve greatness! too bad you keep being an up-to-date coward! where are your shoes?????
33. # 4
John ,   conway USA   (02.22.07)
You should have obtained an education with some of the handout money you idiots got only to use to buy weapons and condoms for your 72 virgins. Learn to spell. At one time I believed in your cause as a just one. Now I am convinced you are at best idiots and at worse fools.
34. #16
Logic ,   Israel   (02.22.07)
Why should you be able to speak your mind freely from the USA, and others cannot in Egypt? This is hypocracy!
35. #24 Natan, Thank you
Judy Y ,   Los Angeles   (02.22.07)
36. #13, how did you get that evil???
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.22.07)
Years and years of brainwshing, I guess?
37. # 24 Muslim dissent
David H   (02.22.07)
The heaviest censorship on the planet takes place in Muslim countries. That's a fact. There's no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, no freedom of the press and so on and so forth. Not only that but penalties for displeasing the authorities can be quite severe. Instead of attacking readers of this website for their opinions, Mr No-Name should put his energies to better use by trying to improve the situation in his own country. Or if that seems too daunting, then at least to try to improve his own educational level.
38. Bugger off
Travis ,   McGee   (02.22.07)
We the people, wish you would all go back to the desert, stop vacinating your children or washing and commence to killing each other off. Once the oil runs out, you turds are history.
39. #31
Travis Mcgee ,   ceder key, Florida   (02.22.07)
an insult is only an insult if you let it be one. Are you people really that thin skinned? You muslims insult (and murder) other religions all the time and you don't see us blowing up airliners and daycare centers do you? Morons all of you. Grow up and take a bath!
40. #31 You missed the point, again
Tess   (02.22.07)
It's not whether it's nice to criticize a religion. The point is that this kid will be spending four years in jail for something he wrote. Three years for criticizing his religion and one year for criticizing his president.
41. #31 is proof ....
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.23.07)
That we cannot reason with fanatic, brainwashed people. You are so far gone off the deep end, that the modern world cannot deal with you. you see things cmpletely different than we do. What if the non-Muslim world wanted to punish every Muslim that slandered Judaisma dn Christianity??? You know how many jails we would need. Musilms burn the Israeli and american flags all the time. they call Jews pigs and apes and they draw hateful cartoons of Jews all the time. You are ignorant people with primitive minds and that is why the west is at odds with you. Its a shame really!!!
42. hey 31
toni ,   sabme   (02.23.07)
if islam wasnt so easy to make fun of , you might have apoint but mahammed screwd you guys in so many ways i hope hes rotting in hell. his spirit lives today in the jihadist of our times. i have no gripe with any religion unless tthere religion has texts that can easly be interpreted as violent. ther is no compulsion in religion. that mohammed what a wicked indevidual fight them where ever you find them till there is none but allah no compulsion my a.....
43. To no 20
Y ,   N   (02.23.07)
I have been to some arab countries. How many arabs i have met? I dont know. In the west some people go to prison for denying the Holocaust. But if yor read the papers here ang blogs and so on you will se many ignorant people denying that it ever took place. And most of these people dont go to prison for their oppinion. In the west people can criticise religion and history and politics as musch as they want and not go to prison for it. In many arab and muslim countries you cant do that. You have no democratic tradition and most certainly will not have democrazy for hundred of years. And the pity is that Israel have to live with you people as their neighbours.
44. wow...
Greg   (02.23.07)
i can only imagine if the US jailed every person who either criticized or wrote some crap or put up some funny video on the internet about Bush. over half the country would be incarcerated lol. 150million people.
45. Freedom
Libneniyyeh ,   Lebanon   (02.23.07)
39- Are we that thin-skinned? It's a matter of perspective. You are deeply offended at a joke on a suger packet. We are offended by other things. "You Muslims" Im sick and tired of hearing it all the time. Yeah, right, watch out, Im planning an attack on Florida soon 40- Would you care to argue what exactly "criticism" means, and where it ends? If someone wrote obscenities on a grave stone, that one could say: Oh, just freedom of opinion. I am not defending Muslims who do the same evil, I am saying stop being so damn judgemental and generalizing. 41- Thank you for describing yourself so astutely, as with your own words you are evidently no better. The hate crimes you mention are done all over the world by everyone, not just Muslims. 42- sticks and stones buddy, stick one up urs while ur at it. Thank you everyone for proving just how "civilized" and sick people some of you are. And shame on Ynet for publishing some of these talkbacks.
46. violation of freedom
Leaghaire ,   New Zealand   (02.23.07)
"I was hoping that he would get a harsher sentence because he presented to the world a bad image of Egypt." I can't think of a worse image being presented than this guilty verdict. I certainly hope Egypt doesn't get to host the Internet Governance Forum in 2009. If there is some way to protest this, or sign a petition against their hosting said forum I will be happy to do so.
47. to #45
roger ,   australia   (02.23.07)
The sugar packet jokes sound sick, and yes, very offending. However, I didn't see anyone attacking any embassies, rioting wildly or issuing death warrants like what your fellow Muslims did after the cartoon incident in Denmark. Did you? Can you understand the difference? One word: violence. There are other ways and they may turn out to be more constructive to everyone. Worth a try?
48. #47, it's like talking to a wall....
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.23.07)
These people will never try to se things our way. they have their opinions embedded in their brian from birth. Any reasonable person can see that Muslim rage is out of control. It is almost as if they look for excuses to riot and burn. Maybe future generations will be different.
49. to 29
(02.23.07)
Do you know why you are diffrence , because you have 100 faces , because you have no principles , because you are people can not be trust , because you are people hateing everything not Jew , because you are people not welcomed in most of the world .... you know now why ?? ... enjoy it
50. to 32
(02.23.07)
better write about Donald Duck suits you better .... lol
51. to 33
(02.23.07)
First get polite if you know how ... the one who write the way you do is the real idiot ... ask your father to teach you how to be polite if you know who your father is ... one like you don't deserve more than this ... but normal dicussion is only for gentlemen not for stupid one like you .... big idiot .
52. Where are you ?
charles ,   petach tikva   (02.23.07)
You those Israel haters . Where are you who tells us Israel is not a DEMOCRACY . Where are you who always are condemning Israel for the smallest offend . You who compare a community to many towns [ hey Georges W ! ] He you with all your lies . Where is Amnesty International , when will we hear something from this UN commission for Human Rights ? A next time you criticise Israel , i'll remember you your silence of today .
53. Bravo Egypt!!!
World traveler ,   Everywhere   (02.23.07)
Thanks for showing the world how tolerant and open minded your culture and societies are. Islam is trully the religion of peace and tolerance.
54. DR
Libneniyyeh ,   Lebanon   (02.24.07)
Hey buddy, when you talk about "Muslim rage out of control" don't go making your stupid generalizations. You see on TV handfuls of rioters, you hear on the news about some terrorists. And THAT, unfortunately, is ALL you people hear. It is you who are brainwashed, because you refuse to even entertain the notion that there are lots of good Muslims around.
55. To #54 Libneniyyeh
Brenda ,   Indiana, USA   (02.25.07)
If there are as you say "lots of good muslims around" they where the hell are they? We don't see many of them speaking up in free countries like the US. Here they can say what they want, they can speak out against things like this if they want to but yet they don't. Are they afraid of their own people in the Mosques? It sure seems that way. The Dr is right, it is almost impossible to reason with anyone in the Islamic faith, yet they can say what ever they feel like about Christians, Jews, or any other religion. Doesn't make much sense to me. Yet they Bible said this is how it would be. The Moslem people are descended from Ismael and God said they no one would be able to live with him or his descendents.
56. 55
Libneniyyeh ,   Lebanon   (02.25.07)
They speak up, Brenda, but you hear and believe only what you want and the proof is in your disgustingly ignorant and bigoted remarks. What do you know about who the Muslims are and the Koraan except for the crap you read or watch on TV? You know nothing and you don't want to know anything, so you see its a vicious cycle because you're just afraid of something you dont understand and refuse to learn about. Well, good luck to you.
57. To Libneniyyeh
Brenda ,   Indiana, USA   (02.25.07)
I have listened and all I hear is the same old thing. If I say a word against Islam I get attacked, If I say I don't trust any Islamic person until they prove that they aren't after my head I'm attacked, but let one of you insult anything Christian and it's okay just what your Qur'an says to do. Say anything against Islam and it's riots in the streets. Plenty proof of that, look what happend in France and look what happened when Cartoons were put on display about Islam, full scale riots and people lost their lives yet you do burn American flags and scream death to the Americans and to the Jews and if Islam wants to publish a cartoon insulting Christianity, that's fine and dandy. Tell me just what is a logical thinking person to think? You are not peaceful and your religion isn't either. History shows this and you can say what ever you think and call me ignorant and a bigot but all I know is what I see on my TV screen. Moslems raised in the UK want to kill people, I just heard about the more than 2000 home-grown Moslems in England who want to murder and commit mayhem. Islam is more important to them then the country they were born and raised in. Again tell me just what I'm supposed to think. You don't want peace you just want my head. If you are so sure of your self and Islam, why don't you stand up and say that the radical moslems are wrong? Do you have that kind of courage? No, I don't think so.
58. Brenda
Libneniyyeh ,   Lebanon   (02.26.07)
You think a tru Muslim would insult Chritianity's prophet? On my part as a true Muslim, I would die rather than insult Jesus (PBUH) or any other prohet for that matter. Brenda, God is God no matter who or where you are. And for your information, yes, I did say otherwise as soon as I read this article, and I did speak up BUT MY TALKBACK WAS NO PUBLISHED. Doesnt this tell you something by now? Doesnt it tell you soimething, that all the articles published here are inciting, that only bad things are made known? I dont know you and you dont know me and yet you dont like me before you even know who I am. If you look in the world at the people commiting crimes, are they following the teachings of God, be they Christians, Moslems, or Jews? Of course not! A criminal is a criminal. Yes, these terrorists are CRIMINALS! Yes, it is wrong what they are doing. Yes, their mosques should be under scrutiny. Be careful who you direct your argument to. All people are not the same.
59. #58 and Islam....
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.27.07)
PLease understand that I have nothing against your religion. The Koran is a great book with peaceful implications, BUT the way a lot of muslims interperet it is awful. Your religion is under siege by radical extreme elements that want the whole world to convert or die. I work for a Muslim Doctor and work along side a Muslim post-Doc and they agree 100% that Islam is not what it was meant to be. The biggest problem is what Brenda was reffering to...we don't see enough Muslims speak out and stand up for our shared values, like freedom of speech, equal rights to all including women and minorities. You cannot deny that Islam is a little behind in this respect. People in the US have a hard time understanding why Muslims hate us so much. And the Muslims who live here and in Europe don't seem to want to assimilate and join us in this fight, so of course there will be negative feelings towards your people. I hope you understand where we come from a little better now. I never mean to personally put people down, but sometimes its hard not to. Shalom
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