Free speech alert; Egyptian blogger to serve 3 years for insulting Islam

The Obama administration refuses to speak of Islam in any way but glowing, forbidding the use of "Islam" within a violent or angry context, yet in the new democratic Egypt, a blogger who spoke less than praiseworthy about Islam is in prison for three years because he "insulted" the religion of the perpetually insulted.

And no one sees the irony here.

From The Washington Post October 22

Egyptian sentenced to 3 years for insulting Islam in his Facebook postings

CAIRO — Egypt’s state media says a Cairo court has sentenced a man to three years in prison for postings on Facebook deemed to be inciting sectarianism and in contempt of Islam.

The MENA state news agency said Saturday a the misdemeanor court found Ayman Mansour had intentionally mocked Islam and used “outrageous and scurrilous” language in describing the religion’s holy book, the Quran, and its prophet and believers.

The court said freedom of belief doesn’t excuse contempt that may offend believers and “subject the regime and the country’s security to serious dangers.”

If Islam is as strong as Muslims claim, why are they so afraid of Christianity? One must wonder how valid a product is if it cannot stand up to critical scrutiny.

Egypt is grappling with an increasingly assertive ultraconservative Islamist trend, and recent clashes between the military police and Coptic Christians have heightened fears of increasing sectarian strife.

It is Islam that creates the "sectarian" strife, Copts are just the receivers of 1400 years of hatred.