Egypt: Prosecutor summons poet for interrogation over insults to Islam

When you read in the Los Angeles Times or Washington Post about how we need "hate speech" laws to foster "harmony," this is the ugly reality of what they're calling for: thoughtcrime laws that enshrine one particular point of view as above questioning or criticism.

"Poet summoned for interrogation over contempt of religion," from Al-Masry Al-Youm, October 9 (thanks to Heliogabalus):

The New Cairo Prosecutor summoned poet Hisham al-Gokh over a claim filed by a lawyer accusing him of contempt of religion.

Lawyer Salwa al-Faresy filed a complaint accusing Gokh of the contempt of religion in one of his poems, providing the part of the poem on which she based her claim.

The complainant added that the poet used words and religious images and comparisons in his work, especially in the title of the poem called “Human is Based on Five.” Faresy said that the title of the poem referred to the five pillars of Islam.

Prosecutors summoned the lawyer and the poet for testimony.

Gokh also likened his beloved in the poem to Ka'bah, and used distorted verses from the Qur'an, Faresy said.

Which probably means that he quoted inconvenient Qur'an verses accurately.

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"Hate Speech" laws serve well the purpose of intimidating & punishing anyone who says or writes something that some victim-playing minority claims is hate speech. Enemies of free speech, especially Muslims, would delight in getting a great many "summoned for interrogation".

Once I had the opportunity to attend a show by Dario Fo, who once received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
You do not need to like his political views (he is in some shade of red), and I do not know whether it is right to nominate a theater author and director for a prize in literature: however as an actor he was brilliant in that occasion.
If there was a good reason to award a prize to Dario Fo, it is because with his show "Mistero Buffo" he showed a discussion between Jesus Christ and a Pope wearing costly dresses and golden rings.
You can imagine the shock in a almost officially Catholic state as Italy where the Bible is not traditionally read (Catholics are not famous for owning and reading the Bible, on the contrary it was forbidden to sell the Bible in Rome until 20.09.1870 when the army od Piedmont invaded the town) when a theater piece openly discusses whether the pope should be rich, showing on the scene Jesus Christ who tells the pope that He never said that the pope would wear golden rings.
Dario Fo often used to be provocative on the scenes and was banned from state-owned TV chains for years (and once in Italy there were only state-owned TV chains, so he was banned from TV altogether).
For having suffered this ban Mr Dario Fo deserved a prize.

If poets, authors, actors are banned from representing the important questions of their times, then where should such questions be discussed?
(If the ban against non-Catholics ides had been enforced in Italy, then it would be still fobidden to sell the Bible and to bury non-Catholics in Rome ...)

Savages pretending to be civilized.

"The New Cairo Prosecutor summoned poet Hisham al-Gokh.."

He must be a "moderate". In Islam, you don't "summon" poets, you simply execute them. Right? Muhammad's followers?

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/03/assassin-english.html

From the article - "Gokh also likened his beloved in the poem to Ka'bah..".

Question: should the lady have been flattered or should she have been insulted?

One wonders whether the poet has been on Hajj and kissed the black stone in its silver mounting; if so, he may have intended a double entendre ...some reports suggest that it has a distinct resemblance to certain portions of the female anatomy, and the pictures I was able to google up support that.


The following link will take you to a site that has a handy and rather revealing collection of images both of the 'black box' and of the magic stone in its silver mounting.

*Ignore* the accompanying text as that seems to be a cut and paste combining serious geography and history with Islamic nonsense and lies and 'New Age' bizarrerie. Just look at the pictures and ask yourself exactly what would inspire an Egyptian Muslim (nominal or practising?) poet to write an erotic poem comparing his love-object to the Kaabah...

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.crystalinks.com/mecca-kaaba.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.crystalinks.com/blackstone.html&h=576&w=546&sz=57&tbnid=0RbRjJwxXAHBqM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=81&prev=/search%3Fq%3DKaaba%2Bimages%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=Kaaba+images&usg=__q9XALTyoc_nKkKP5HAZkcd8OWpQ=&hl=en-AU&sa=X&ei=fhl6UM6bIPGZiQext4H4Ag&ved=0CCQQ9QEwAw


I note they walk widdershins around this peculiar object !

''Each person walks counter-clockwise seven times about the Kaaba,... ''

Egypt: Prosecutor summons poet for interrogation over insults to Islam
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And why not? The "Prophet" Muhammed had poets assassinated for criticizing or poking fun at him.

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"Poet summoned for interrogation over contempt of religion" ...........................

"Contempt of religion", hmmmm? Christianity? Zoroastrianism? Scientology? Not—let me guess—might it be *Islam*?

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