Posted on 02/14/2019 5:44:40 PM PST by marshmallow
The university students aged between 19 and 24 were accused of being in “contempt of the Christian religion”
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have arrested four students for mocking Christian rituals in an online video and ordered them to be kept in custody for four days, a judicial source said Monday.
The university students aged between 19 and 24 were accused of being in “contempt of the Christian religion,” the source said.
If tried and found guilty they could face up to five years in prison.
They were arrested last week and remanded in custody by the state prosecutor overnight Sunday.
At the end of January they posted a video on YouTube in which they were allegedly seen mocking Coptic hymns and prayers.
But they later removed the clip and posted an apology online.
Copts, a Christian minority which accounts for 10 percent of Egypt’s 98 million people, have repeatedly complained of marginalization in the mostly Muslim country. In recent years they have been targeted by Daesh group extremists.
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Obama, Clinton, Brennan et.al. all tried to install the Muslim Brotherhood across the mid-east. Egypt was heading towards a MB-inspired religious genocide of Christians when Al-Sisi finally staged a coup.
He protects Christians simply because he knows that no doing so would empower and encourage the worst, most destructive, troglodyte members of Egyptian Muslim society.
Low oil prices and record US oil production have nearly eliminated the stranglehold muslim countries had on Christian nations. Another huge Trump win.
Looks like Christianity is protected more in Egypt than it is here. I would chalk it up to a free speech issue, but all other religions are protected from mockery here, either de jure or de facto. Ironic.
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