You may find this outrageous, and the murder of Samuel Paty in France for showing a cartoon of Muhammad to his class heinous, but this is the direction in which the U.S. and the West are tending. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than most people realize. Supporters of Trump are defamed and smeared as “terrorists” now, but the groundwork for that has been prepared for years, as critics of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others have been excoriated, vilified, demonized, deplatformed, and shunned by all decent people. What is the next step? This. Remember: Old Joe has pledged to combat “hate speech,” which is any speech that those in power dislike, and a member of his transition team declared that he wanted to outlaw desecration of the Qur’an. So we are far closer to this than most people think.
“Algeria: Christian Convicted of Blasphemy,” Middle East Concern, February 4, 2021:
Algerian Christians request prayer for a believer from a Muslim background convicted of blasphemy. On 21 January a court in Erzwe – Oran, sentenced him to five-years imprisonment.
The Christian (43) is married with four children (ages 6, 4, 3 years and four-months-old). He has known Jesus since 2001.
In 2018 he shared a caricature of the Prophet of Islam in one of his social media accounts. On 20 January 2021 he was summoned by police for investigation, accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam….
Several similar charges and punishments have been reported against others in the country, including two Christians from a Muslim background from the Kabylie area who were recently convicted of blasphemy. They received sentences of six months and three years respectively, and were fined between US $375 and $1,900.
Ade Fegan says
The truth is haram
Atheist Kafir/Infidel says
I have been jailed for 8 years, in Egyptstan, under El-Sissy’s rule, for ‘insulting’ islam and Koranimals on social media.
gravenimage says
Terrible, Atheist Kafir. How did you get out?
Peter Buckley says
Has lived 20 years an apostate….
Ade Fegan says
Oh ! .. fair game then !!
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Keith O says
Using fear as a means of controlling the population seems to be the only way islam maintains it’s stranglehold on the populations of third world countries. Now that it has proven so adept at holding onto power for the ruling elites within islam, it will now be rolled out to the civilised world through the use of sharia and it’s draconian laws.
Infidel says
Somehow, I find this story very hard to believe. Almost all non-muslims in any muslim country would know off the risks involved in mocking either islam or its founder. A person w/ 4 kids and a lot to lose would be very unlikely to risk it by putting out cartoons of Mohammed. It was more likely an attempt by an enemy of his to frame him
gravenimage says
He may have been falsely accused–this is not uncommon.
But sometimes Infidels–even apostates from Islam–underestimate the danger they are in.
gravenimage says
Algeria: Christian shares caricature of Muhammad on social media, gets five years prison
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Appalling–but this sadly does not surprise.
Andrew says
I strongly suggest people stop referring to Mohammad as a Prophet, he was the Founder of islam and so it may be better to write it as the founder of islam, Mr Mohammad…
He was a War Lord and that a Guru does NOT make…
No Muzzies Here says
Is there any Muslim country that has joined the modern world and rejected darkness and superstition? Looks like there isn’t any.