Posted on 05/09/2015 9:34:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Four Egyptian kids who dared make fun of ISIS in a harmless video are headed for trial along with their teacher on charges of “insulting Islam,” after their Muslim neighbors got hold of the footage and went to police.
Aged between 15 and 16, the youths could face up to five years in a youth detention center—while the teacher would serve any sentence he receives in prison—if the court finds them guilty of violating Egypt’s blasphemy law, Egypt-focused activists say.
Egyptian Christian and civil rights groups are leading calls for their release, but the five—members of the Coptic community that descends from the non-Arab people whose Pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt—have already spent weeks in police holding cells. […]
The court proceedings are taking place in Beni Mazar, a city in Minya Governorate some 140 miles south of Cairo. …
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They are probably lucky they are in Egypt. If this had happened in the USA I can’t imagine how much trouble they’d be in!
Obama must be jealous. He is so thin skinned, he would love to be able to do this with his critics I’m convinced.
All praying people should pray for these students and their teacher. We could be next.
Also pray for our leaders, and for protection from our leaders.
SILENCE!
I Kill You !
LOL at least in Egypt, they have a chance of Al Sisi stepping in and pardoning them.
Hmmm..... sort of runs against the grain of the concept that ISIS is made up of extremists and that the rest of the Mooslimes are relatively moderate....
Didn’t Egypt outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood?
Everything you need to know right in the title of this article. ISIS = islam.
For a second, I thought it was the country that paid 1/10 of a billion dollars to build a mosque in Maryland, the opening of which will be attended by our pos pres. Of course, I’m talking about Turkey
Complete travel ban with the M.E. and North Africa.
if the religion is a religion of peace shouldn’t they be arresting people who support Isis because it is a insult to Islam to support this organization.
Perfect.
Based on this Shari’a-based logic, ISIS is Islamic. Can someone ring white (racist) courtesy phone at the White (racist) House and inform our Pro-Mohammedan President that Egyptian Shari’a courts are prosecuting some yutes for mocking Islam simply because they mocked ISIS?
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