Abdel Karem, an Egyptian blogger, was imprisoned for “insulting Islam”.
In my opinion Karim lived up to both his own true self and principles as well as his religion. In his Blogger profile he wrote that he was looking forward to help humanity against all forms of discrimination. The Qur’an implores believers to speak up against injustice, which is precisely what Karim has done. Once again a religious institution is confusing itself with God, instead of seeing that they are part of the problem, they interpret any criticism of the institution as criticism of Allah…
Yasmin spent several days poring over his blog posts, and provides a detailed analysis. Zainub writes about how such events reflect the insecurity of oppressive governments. [Hat tip: Aaman ]
The same insecurity that all autocratic rulers are wary off, for they realize how human history is filled with examples of what collective civil up-rising can do to even the most powerful of regimes. There is not much, otherwise, that could explain such open display of totalitarianism.
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