Blogger gets four years for insulting Islam

Remember Abdel Kareem Nabil, the Egyptian blogger on trial for insulting Islam?  Well he's just been jailed for four years.

One of the offending articles, "The Naked Truth of Islam as I Saw it", can still be read here. Just in case that gets nobbled too, I have posted Abdel Kareem's article below.

"The Muslims have taken the mask off to show their true hateful face, and they have shown the world that they are at the top of their brutality, inhumanity, and thievery.
They have clearly shown their worst features and have shown that in dealing with others they are not governed by any moral codes.

From what I have seen yesterday of the events at Maharram Beh, which were quite shameful, and have shown me more facts that they have tried to cover over the centuries.

They have indicated that Islam is a religion of peace and forgiveness, but their true face has been uncovered to show barbarism and thievery and fanaticism and not acknowledging others, and attempting to remove them from existence.

Some may think that the actions of the Moslems does not represent Islam and has no relationship with the teachings of Islam that was brought by Mohamed 14 centuries ago, but the truth is that their actions is not different from the Islamic teachings in its original form when it has urged people to deny others and hate them and kill them and take their property, things that they know well but they try to deceive people by falsely defending the teachings of Islam by extremists and they are hiding from the truth and they prefer living a lie.

I have seen with my own eyes the thugs as they break into our Christian brothers’ stores after the whole area of Maharram Beh was completely out of control of the government authorities, and I saw them as they ransack the contents of the store right and left, amidst cheering and shouting extremist Islamic slogans, and I saw them stealing the money from inside the drawers of the cash registers and splitting it among themselves as if it is justified by being owned by what they call the infidels and the worshippers of the cross.

I saw them break into a liquor store owned by a Coptic merchant Labib Lotfy and I saw them smash everything they can get their dirty hands on, including the refrigerator and the scale and the boxes and liquor bottles. I saw some of them stealing liquor bottles so they can get drunk after a hard day’s work against the Coptic infidels.

It is worth mentioning that although some people may think that this Christian-owned liquor store was particularly targeted because the owner is selling the forbidden alcoholic beverages that is forbidden in Islam, but another liquor store in front of the Christian-owned store happens to be owned by a Moslem merchant, and none of the thugs dared to attack, as they did with the Christian-owned store. Now you can see the hateful sectarian actions.

What the Moslems did yesterday in a very vulgar and criminal and horrible way proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that they don’t acknowledge others or their rights of existence or their rights to live with the freedom of expression and also consider them less than them, and these actions should be fought and exterminated for is it right to leave these horrible human beings to do what they want and kill, destroy, steal, and burn??!!

The Islamic teachings that was brought by Mohammed 14 centuries ago should be faced with courage and boldness, we should expose and show its faults and warn humanity of its dangers. We should, even though we are different –look with reason to these teachings that urges people, human beings, to become monsters that don’t know anything in life except killing and looting and plundering and raping and pillaging.

We should stand courageously and boldly against these teachings that became a plague on humanity and is not supported except by extremists like bin Laden and al Zarqawi and al Zawaheeri and the thugs that assaulted our Coptic brothers and burned their homes and stole their properties, and tried to assault their religious men and destroy their churches.

We should take off the religious and sectarian gown and look at matters in a more humane way. We should hold trials to all the acts of terrorism and extremism, that our Islamic history have kept their names and their criminal actions starting with Mohamed ibn Abdullah and his company of murderers like Khalid ibn el Waled and Omar ibn el Khattab and Saad ibn Abbi Waqqas and Moiizah Bin Shaabah and Samra bin Gandab and the kings of Beni Ummaya and Beni al Abbass and al Osman, and ending with the Moslem criminals of the modern day that became more famous than movie stars and singers.
We should show the world the truth of these criminals that unfortunately have become role models for our youth and our children and our women. We should expose their false teachings and show the world that they are a big danger that should be exterminated and removed from its roots.

Before you put on trial the people that are responsible for the crimes that occurred on Black Friday in Maharram Beh, you should first put on trial the dirty teachings that caused them to go on a rampage of stealing and plundering and looting.. put Islam on trial and sentence it and its symbols with a figurative execution so that you can be sure that what happened yesterday will never be repeated again.

For as long as Islam exists on this planet all your efforts to end wars and disputes and upheavals will fail because Islam’s dirty finger will be found behind every catastrophic event to humanity.”

Update: A campaign to free Abdel Kareem Nabil is already under way.

Update 2: His blog is here and there is a Google translation here. (H/T: David T at Harry's Place, who, like me, wonders how the hell he managed to miss the demonstration for Abdel Kareem in London last week.)

Update 3: Francis Sedgemore has the relevant names and addresses if you want to write in protest:

Egyptian Ambassador to the UK: HE Mr Gehad Refaat Madi: etembuk@hotmail.com
UK Government: Dr Kim Howells, FCO: howellsk@parliament.uk
Egyptian Government: questions@cabinet.gov.eg
Online petitions via www.freekareem.org

Comments

[Cleanthes]

The Egyptian Ambassador to the UK uses a hotmail account?

WTF?

[Cleanthes]

But I can see if that there exists an offence "insulting Islam", that that post would get you a conviction.

It is the law that needs to be fought as much as getting a pardon for this one brave blogger.

[j0nz]

Bugger. Maybe another demo can be arranged

[Lithcol]

Just been blocked from pickled politics by Sunny. Says he believes in free speech. Seems only if you follow his line of reasoning. He doesn't like the cold light of day. Probably a closet fundamentalist muslim. Behaving just like those liberal Eygptians.
Still I could be in jail if this country became an islamic fascist state. Lets hear it for Kareem and others who could easily have been murdered for pointing out the murderous intent of far too many muslims. He may yet be in trouble. Would you like to spend 4 years in an Egyptian jail.
Let us also celebrate our forebears who gave so much for our freedoms, including my mom and dad.

[pommygranate]

The Sandmonkey has been following this case for months. He has given a slot by the BBC to write about it.

Best Mid Eastern blogger

[Green Arrow]

I have taken the liberty of linking this from the Green Arrow Blog.

I have also posted links to your site around several forums.

I hope you do not mind.

Good Luck

[BNPmember]

Ditto.

[Rastaman]

I not only linked to it, I copied the whole goddam thing. Appropriate link back to you, of course. Ask? No, I didn't ask. Are you kidding? I'm one of those damned cheeky Americans.

Has anyone noticed that Chichi hasn't commented on this? And speaking of not commenting, what happened to Alison? I miss her slurred, inebriated comments that always missed the point. They were entertaining.

Rasty the Nasty
www.islamanazi.com

[USpace]

Great post, very interesting, it's in thanks! This is a very sad story indeed. God bless Kareem and keep him safe, he will be free someday.

absurd thought-
God of the Universe says
don't tell the truth

evil men will jail you
kill you to protect their lies
.

[chachi]

why comment on something so stupid, we've heard it hundreds of times, Islam/evil muslims & all the rest, weird though seeing as how many people convert to Islam every year having read the koran & some how not comming to the same conclusions as mr Abdel Kareem Nabil, or maybe all of them do agree........how 'evil' some people can be...........but they still keep converting.....i wonder why?

[Celtic Infidel]

You really do need to get out more often.

[Rastaman]

No shit. The actual fact is that people are leaving Islam in droves. In Africa, which had been mostly taken over by Islam, the conversions to Christianity are huge. Islam is falling back, on that continent. It's falling back all over the world and the reason for it is very clear: Education. The more people learn about world affairs, prosperity and freedom, the less they want to do with Islam. That speaks for itself.

Rastaman

www.islamanazi.com

[dee]

you've had your demonstration and now i'm wondering where sydney's demonstration is?? i'll certainly be in that...by the way, great post and i've 'borrowed' it for my blogsite
cheers

[Steve]

Don't worry Dee. A few people have borrowed this one.

[Fatimah]

The best way to fight misguided and violent Muslims is with the path of love and mercy as trodden by the mystics of Islam. It is only through love that we can realise our true humanity. Check this website www.fonsvitae.com

PS I never saw Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan wielding a weapon: only singing about love for the Divine

[Fatimah again (a convert)]

By the way Rastaman, which part of Africa are you referring to? Senegal, where hundreds of Catholics have become Muslim? South Africa, where hundreds of Christians have become Muslim? Or Rwanda, where, after the brutality shown by the Christians there, hundreds have become Muslim? I know quite a few Jamaicans who have become Muslim too. Look to the rest of the world: What about the Maoris who are becoming Muslim? What about the Caucasus, where hundreds have become Muslim? What about Germany, which has the highest rate of conversions in the world? This is the miracle of Allah, that in spite of the vast quantities of bigoted baloney that people throw at Islam, it just keeps getting stronger! Ya Hayy! (Do you know what means? Have you learned anything about Islam?)

[paul maleski]

THE BIGGEST THREAT TO ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM!
Does not come from the hectoring-hypocritical pious West, or Western orchestrated terroism in independent Islamic States, or proselytizing Christians but from: the free universal, modern, secular education of all moslem school-aged girls.