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Egyptians Targeted With Blasphemy Charges - SteveG - 05-18-2013 It's not only Sunnis versus Shiites conducting war against one another in the Muslim world. It's an AP story>> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=184965614 "Any move or word by a Christian is enough to get the rumor mill working," said Amr Ezzat, a prominent researcher in Islamic groups at the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). "Rumors quickly spread in villages or the towns where the radar of Islamist activists detect them and turn them into a rallying cry under the pretext that Islam's supremacy is endangered." -- Another rights group, the EIPR, said it chronicled at least 36 blasphemy cases in 2011 and 2012, including more than 10 convictions, and that Christian school teachers were frequent targets. "Teachers are an easy target," said Gibrael. "Any two students can say anything about their teachers. Islamist teachers collect signatures, and quickly Islamists move a case, then terrorize the court by holding protests and besieging the court building until the judge issues a verdict. I have seen it all," he said. -- In rural areas, according to EIPR researcher Ishak Ibrahim, even those acquitted or otherwise cleared of blasphemy accusations face social or administrative punishment, with some forced by villagers to leave their homes, pay a fine or get demoted or suspended by their state employers. The top Brotherhood leader in Luxor, Abdel-Hamid el-Senoussi, is a lawmaker and the head of the legal team representing the families whose children testified against Abdel-Nour. He acknowledged that two investigations by the school found no justification for the children's claims, but said he does not trust those findings. "They just want to avoid discord. But we prefer to get to the bottom of it," he said. "Even if the court clears the teacher and rules that she is innocent, she must be fired from the school...There are people who want to mess up with the ship of the nation and this teacher is one of them," he said. For him, the penalty for contempt of religion is not harsh enough. "I prefer 10 years imprisonment and, in case the judge clears the defendant, a fine that goes toward the upkeep of places of worship...Anyone who insults religions must be punished to deter further assaults," he said. Re: Egyptians Targeted With Blasphemy Charges - cbelt3 - 05-18-2013 Welcome to the 13th century. |