Egyptian Blogger Gets 4 Years in Jail
The BBC is reporting that Abdel Kareem Nabil has been sentenced to 4 years in jail:
He had used his weblog to criticise the country’s top Islamic institution, the al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator. [...] During the five-minute court session the judge said Nabil was guilty and would serve three years for insulting Islam and inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mr Mubarak.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
..and there, in a nutshell, is the reason why religion and just-about-everything-else simply don’t mix.
I think it’s high time all religion was removed form the world. Sure, we’ll have to think up other reasons for killing each other but at least they can be about _something_ and not “because this 2 thousand year old book says so”.