Muslim cleric jailed 11 years for burning the Bible during a protest in Egypt

A Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian Muslim preacher to 11 years in jail for blasphemy on Sunday for burning a Bible during a protest last year outside the U.S. embassy.
Convictions for insulting Islam are common in Egypt, ruled by Islamists after the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, but more rare for cases involving the minority Christian faith.
Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, known as Abu Islam, who runs his own religious television channel, led a demonstration in September against a U.S.-made anti-Islam video posted on the Internet.
His son was sentenced to eight years in jail for the same offence. Both will remain at liberty pending appeal.
The video’s depiction of the Prophet Mohammad as a fool and segxwal deviant set off anti-American protests across the Muslim world.
The film was later attributed to a Californian born in Egypt’s Coptic Christian community, a group that has expressed concern about the rise of Islamist political power.

Posted: at 18-06-2013 05:58 PM (10 years ago) | Hero

Serves the idiot right. . iIf there is anything to burn,it should be the evil book koran, infact it should be used to deficate

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Posted: at 18-06-2013 09:00 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

i beg , make dem free the man jare ,
what offence has he commited by burning a toilet paper like book?

Posted: at 18-06-2013 10:34 PM (10 years ago) | Grande Master

Thank you for sharing
 

Posted: at 19-08-2013 09:05 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac