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Egyptian court sentence Mohammed filmmakers to death in absentia
A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and had prompted violent protests in many Muslim countries.
“The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet,” Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman said.
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Eff you, Egypt.
WeekendAtBernankes on November 28, 2012 at 3:02 PM
Good thing Obama has the youtube guy safely in prison for Thoughtcrime.
forest on November 28, 2012 at 3:03 PM
That’s a big negative right there. It was “released” on the internet several months prior.
DethMetalCookieMonst on November 28, 2012 at 3:05 PM
Those people are not worth a plug nickle, they will be killed if found by the sub-humans. And bho/rice/carney/team spread the video as the cause of benghazi, and by golly for days they stuck to it even having bho say so at the un!
Guess we can add those seven to the ‘dead list’ as the four American’s from benghazi that died bho/team was responisible for?
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letget on November 28, 2012 at 3:08 PM
The court definitely wouldn’t like Zombie’s Mo cartoon page.
SirGawain on November 28, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Another warm and fuzzy moment for pathological liar Susan Rice and her “lord and savior”.
Pork-Chop on November 28, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Sure nice that the Christians aren’t so picky, huh?
kim roy on November 28, 2012 at 3:13 PM
They should have done a movie on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Would have gotten the equivalent of an Egyptian Oscar for it.
I mean the double standard in the Islamic world on so-called blasphemy is amazing. Radical clerics can accuse Judaism of blood libels and other absurdities but if someone questions Muhammad they’re sentenced to death.
SteveMG on November 28, 2012 at 3:13 PM
So are they going to request extradition from the US? I’m betting that we’ve got one of the guys on their list sitting in federal custody right now.
rw on November 28, 2012 at 3:20 PM
Hope Egypt does not have drones.
Jabberwock on November 28, 2012 at 3:23 PM
Keep in mind that the left has formed an alliance with Islam.
Millions of people who agree with this Egyptian court are already in America aided by democrats.
GardenGnome on November 28, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Death to all who claim Islam is a violent religion!!
The Rogue Tomato on November 28, 2012 at 3:27 PM
What? Quiet. I’m trying to watch my reality shows here.
– low information voter
kim roy on November 28, 2012 at 3:29 PM
I might be that if the US will send that devil spawn blind guy back to egypt, that ‘death in absentia’ might not happen? Just asking if it could happen?
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letget on November 28, 2012 at 3:33 PM
I guess I’m a dead man walking.
chemman on November 28, 2012 at 3:39 PM
You know, given their sensitivity to anything related to Mohammed, why aren’t all the male muslims named Mohammed in trouble? I mean, aren’t they insulting the prophet every time they do anything wrong – wiping with the wrong hand, checking out the ankle on that burkha over there, wondering why the infidel thinks so highly of bacon, etc.? Can we maybe work out to have some cleric reason this through and issue a fatwa about guys named Mohammed? Could be interesting to watch………..
GWB on November 28, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Pure theater. They’re safe as long as they don’t enter the country.
And tbh, given the chaotic way the country is run they could probably fly there and have a two week vacation and no one would be the wiser.
CorporatePiggy on November 28, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Does the United States government have a legal obligation to protect the guy they accused of making the movie? I can tell you this much – the US would have to invoke sovereign immunity to escape tort liability if anything bad happens to him.
We are in the throes of an idiot government that has zero manners.
platypus on November 28, 2012 at 5:12 PM