Sharia in action in Egypt: Christian boys, 9 and 10, taken from parents, arrested after accused of desecrating Qur’an

More of the democratic and pluralistic fruits of the glorious "Arab Spring." "Egypt Christian boys, 9 and 10, taken from parents, arrested after accused of desecrating Qur’an," by Joseph Mayton for Bikyamasr, October 3 (thanks to David):

CAIRO: Two Egyptian Christian children, Nabil Rizk, 10, and Mina al-Farag, 9, have been taken from their parents and arrested after a Muslim man accused the two youngsters of desecrating the holy Qur’an in a small village in Bani Sweif in the Nile Delta region.

They will face the public prosecutor on Sunday as the investigation begins.

According to reports, confirmed by local media, both secular and religious, the children are now facing an investigation for allegedly urinating on the holy book and putting it next to a mosque, al-Shorouk newspaper reported.

Rizk’s father, Nabil, said his child cannot read and write and had been looking in the trash “for anything useful” when he found a small bag with pages from the Qur’an so he took them and placed it next to a mosque as he did not know what to do with it.

A meeting had taken place in the village in an effort to solve the crisis after the children were accused, but to the surprise of the villagers, children have been transferred to the junior holding facility pending investigation.

Heavy security has taken over the small Nile Delta village, which is home to 157 Christian families after fears of a confrontation between the residents arose....

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Islam_Macht_Frei | October 3, 2012 5:29 AM | Reply

And you can be sure that, under Sharia, to be accused is to be guilty....

Aprilyn | October 3, 2012 5:30 AM | Reply

Rimsha Masih all over again - next we will hear from the Muslim authorities that the boys are really a 14 -15 years old.

Jan replied to comment from Aprilyn | October 3, 2012 8:07 AM | Reply

Quite. But their ages really don't matter.

Egypt's wicked and evil 'blasphemy' law will be used against Christians whenever expedient, regardless of age, or mental abilities.

john spielman | October 3, 2012 8:37 AM | Reply

What, Egypt has no violent crime that the police and courts can concentrate on 2 little boys who "desecrate" a book? What a farce.

miriam rove replied to comment from Islam_Macht_Frei | October 3, 2012 9:16 AM | Reply

you siad that right!!!!!!
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mosylama | October 3, 2012 10:38 AM | Reply

The Islamic justice: 2 little christian children go to jail while thier alleged crime is bieng invastigated but a moslem leader who is actualy charged with the very same crime go free.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/333600

No Fear | October 3, 2012 5:46 PM | Reply

I always wanted to go to see the Pyramids. It's a shame but I won't be going anywhere near Egypt now.

dumbledoresarmy | October 7, 2012 11:28 PM | Reply

I would bet my bottom dollar that this charge of 'blasphemy!!' is FALSE: that it has been cooked up out of whole cloth by the malevolent Muslims, in order to terrorise and humiliate the Christians, and probably to have an excuse for a pogrom to drive this particular Christian community out of house and home (upon which, the Mohammedans will destroy or loot what small possessions the Christians have).

A 'blasphemy' law is iniquitous enough.

It would be iniquitous - as suppressing freedom of speech and of expression - even if all due process (in the western sense) were followed, and even if Copts were equal with Muslims before the law.

But the sheer **sadism** and nastiness of the way in which it is in fact used: the fact that the Copts haven't a hope of anything resembling a fair trial; the fact that a Muslim can **make up any vicious lie they like** in order to accuse a defenceless and innocent non-Muslim (in this case, two little Coptic kids) and that the rest of the howling Muslim Mob will act on the basis of that brazen lie - which I'll bet they all damn well KNOW is a lie, a lie, a lie - in order to hurt and rob and drive out and KILL people - is absolutely sickening.

All these attacks on this Coptic community here and another there, all of them transparently trumped-up, with the ravening mobs all ready to go - tells me that we are right on the edge of something like the Muslim genocide of the Armenian Christians.

It's time for all free Western nations to STOP **all** aid, of any kind at all, to Muslim Egypt, and to tell them point blank that this cessation of aid is PUNISHMENT for gross human rights violations inflicted on Copts and on ex-Muslims (google 'Mohammed Hegazy' for the case of one apostate from Islam, in Egypt, who was disowned by his family, hounded in the courts, threatened with death, and forced into hiding).

ALL entry of *Muslims* from Egypt into any western majority-non-Muslim land should be STOPPED, yesterday.

Ramp back diplomatic relations, keeping just enough staff in a few well-fortified embassies, to process - fast-tracking - emergency visas for Coptic Christians (employ de-dhimmified Copts, like Raymond Ibrahim, to do the interviews, etc.) These people need to be gotten *out* now, as fast as possible, as many as possible...or we are going to see, anytime soon, wholesale allahu-akbaring Muslim butchery of Coptic Christians to the tune of hundreds of thousands and quite probably *millions*.

Time for an Operation Magic Carpet like the Jews of Israel did for the Jews of Iraq, and Operation Wings of an Eagle (was that what it was called? I think that was the name) for the Jews of Yemen.

Or we could call it Operation Exodus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5EfwBWgg0

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