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Egypt Salafi urges U.N. to criminalize contempt of Islam
Reuters ^ | Sept. 22, 2012 | Marwa Awad

Posted on 09/22/2012 6:52:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(Reuters) - Egypt's president and other Muslim leaders should demand the U.N. criminalize contempt of religion after the release of an anti-Islamic film and cartoons which demonstrate growing racism, said the leader of the biggest ultra-orthodox Islamist party.

Despite doctrinal and political differences with President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafist Nour Party played a key role in supporting it during presidential elections in June.

Led by Emad Abdel Ghaffour, it now ranks as the second-largest party in parliament and plays a formidable force in Egypt's new politics.

"We call for legislation or a resolution to criminalize contempt of Islam as a religion and its Prophet," said Ghaffour, one of four permanent assistants to the president, on Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 201209; emadabdelghaffour; freedomofspeech; istanbulprocess; nourparty
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1 posted on 09/22/2012 6:52:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Islam IS contemptible.
2 posted on 09/22/2012 6:55:07 PM PDT by lightman (Settling for the "lesser of two..." is still choosing Evil)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why should the rest of the world bow to Islam? Who is the U.N. to set laws for the sovereign nations?


3 posted on 09/22/2012 6:55:37 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: lightman
Islam IS contemptible.

Bump!!

4 posted on 09/22/2012 6:56:05 PM PDT by nicmarlo (I'll Take the Mormon Over the MORON)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Jim Robinson

Jim, can you put op a statement for all us to sign on the front page that we as Americans are not, nor ever will be bound by any UN dictate to kiss islamic ass? The message needs to get out there that we the people arent about to comply with this crap.


5 posted on 09/22/2012 6:56:23 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Lock me up, Achmed. I dare you.
6 posted on 09/22/2012 6:56:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Screw him.


7 posted on 09/22/2012 6:57:23 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We need a million insulting films. Then they can get over it.

Never apologize for our First Amendment rights. Spent 70 grand telling them they are backwards dumba$$es.


8 posted on 09/22/2012 6:58:09 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So will they also support a law or resolution outlawing the contempt of Judaism? Sauce for the goose...


9 posted on 09/22/2012 7:00:09 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So go ahead and make it illegal and millions will willfully and knowingly break the law.


10 posted on 09/22/2012 7:02:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Team America", 2004

Durka-durka!
11 posted on 09/22/2012 7:03:05 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To hell with the UN.


12 posted on 09/22/2012 7:03:36 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: SERKIT
I have no idea what you're talking about so here's an emotie of Mohammad with a bomb on his head.

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13 posted on 09/22/2012 7:06:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The UN has absolutely no legal authority to anything like that or to enforce that


14 posted on 09/22/2012 7:08:12 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ghaffour is looney as a toon.

Practice what you preach Ghaf.


15 posted on 09/22/2012 7:12:08 PM PDT by berdie
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To: GeronL
The UN has absolutely no legal authority to anything like that or to enforce that

Unfortunately, there are a lot of Islamic countries, something like that could go far.

16 posted on 09/22/2012 7:12:08 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I dont get it...Muslimes pray 5 times a day.

If Allah is so powerful why do Musilmes always

either try to redeem themselves or get Man to help them?

They live miserable lives in arid, dirty sh!tholes of a country and couldn’t not get by without assistance from the West.

And they wonder why the rest of the sane world doesnt want the “blessings” of Allah?


17 posted on 09/22/2012 7:20:21 PM PDT by Gasshog
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18 posted on 09/22/2012 7:24:39 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Free ThinkerNY


19 posted on 09/22/2012 7:27:16 PM PDT by Iron Munro (US Embassies Come and Go But An Obama Apology Lasts Forever)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

20 posted on 09/22/2012 7:42:42 PM PDT by jy8z (From the next to last exit before the end of the internet.)
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