What is Britain going to look like in a few years? Given the condition of the freedom of speech and the advance of Sharia blasphemy laws there now, it will most likely look a great deal like this. And Biden’s handlers’ America is not far behind.
“Christian’s Five-Year Prison Sentence for Facebook Post Upheld in Algeria,” Morning Star News, March 23, 2021:
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A judge in Oran, Algeria on Monday (March 22) upheld a five-year prison sentence for a Christian convicted of reposting a cartoon of Islam’s prophet on his Facebook account three years ago, sources said.
Farid Khemisti, attorney for Hamid (surname withheld for security reasons), said the 43-year-old father of four young children appeared to have received the heavy sentence because he was a Christian. The Oran City Court of Justice also upheld his fine of 100,000 dinars (US$750).
“I really hoped for a reduction in the sentence – I expected at the worst, six months in prison,” Khemisti told Morning Star News. “That is the maximum that a fair judgment would have given, but I don’t think my client’s being a Christian made it any easier.”
Khemisti said the judge and prosecutor were visibly upset when he suggested to them that they were handing down a heavy sentence because Hamid was a Christian.
“I said to them, ‘If it’s because my client is a Christian that you condemn him so heavily, say it honestly,’” Khemisti told Morning Star News. “Of course, they didn’t like it; their faces changed color as I told them that.”
He noted that Hamid was not the creator of the cartoon that he had received and reposted in 2018.
“I pleaded for his release, because it is clear that my client does not deserve such a heavy sanction – he is not the source of this post,” Khemisti said. “The author of the publication in question is abroad. The investigating security services could not find anything else in my client’s Facebook account other than this cartoon.”
Khemisti said he asked the judge what the sentence would be if Hamid were the author of the cartoon, and that he said it would be the same, as Article 144 of Algeria’s penal code stipulates that five years is the maximum penalty for insulting Muhammad.
Article 144 has been condemned by numerous human rights organizations as a violation of international law. In its report, “Policing Belief,” pro-democracy group Freedom House said the article was commonly used to persecute Christians and allowed “police officials and judges to impose their own religious perspectives on society, and to give at least one version of Islamic practice the force of law.”
Hamid was accused by an Islamic extremist with whom he had done business, Khemisti said.
“Hamid was a client of a honey seller, an extremist Islamist, who is at the origin of a complaint filed in December 2020 against Hamid,” he said. “This is how the security services became aware of this publication.”
Appearing shaken by the ruling, Khemisti said that he would not have defended Hamid if he were not convinced of his innocence.
“Hamid assured me that he had never intended to harm Islam or anyone, and that he did not know how he had become trapped in receiving this post,” he said. “If I was not sure of the innocence of my client, I would not have agreed to defend him, because I will never defend someone who infringes on the freedom of others, on the religion or faith of anyone.”
Khemisti said that after consulting with Hamid’s family, he would decide whether to appeal to a court of cassation, which would not re-examine facts but has latitude to interpret them differently. He could also appeal to the supreme court.
Hamid is a poultry farmer in El-Aiyaida, near the city of Oran, some 250 miles west of Algiers on the Mediterranean coast. His children are ages 6, 4, 3 and 3 months.
He had not heard from authorities until they showed up at his door on Jan. 20, and the next day he was sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Arzew, a costal city in Oran Province….
Algeria ranked 24th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2021 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.
Islam is the state religion in the 99-percent Muslim country. Since 2000, thousands of Algerian Muslims have put their faith in Christ. Algerian officials estimate the number of Christians at 50,000, but others say it could be twice that number.
mortimer says
Once Leftarded Globalist-Fascists become unopposable … by removing the protections of free speech and of untampered elections, they will create one-party globalist rule in the US and the UK. The ruling party will be re-elected with a constant 60% majority. The people will no longer have the power to choose their own leaders, speak their mind or decide their own fate. The Big Tech oligarchs will make the policies along with party bosses and operate the government in a CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE PEOPLE.
The Big Tech oligarchs will control all information and dissenters will not be able to warn the people of their impending doom as ‘infallible’ neo-feudal oligarchs decide what the truth is.
Once they have ALL the power, the oligarchs will turn on Islam and CRUSH it by imposing the sterilization of Muslims as the Chinese communists are doing now. The Muslims by going along with censorship are playing into the hands of the globalists.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, what leads you to believe that guys like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey want to sterilize Muslims? Citations, please. They don’t appear to recognize Islam as any sort of threat at all.
I think it is more that social media is playing into the hands of Islam. Making Muslims out to be victims here is *very* odd.
mortimer says
This is what the future will be like if the Leftards don’t realize that their of permitting CENSORSHIP for conservatives TODAY will mean censorship of EVERYONE tomorrow. Big Tech will deplatform the freedom of expression of EVERYONE soon, including Leftards. Leftards will soon be censored, deplatform and permanently cancelled just as Big Tech is doing to everyone with non-globalist opinions.
LET THE STALINIST KANGAROO-COURT SHOW TRIALS BEGIN!
The Leftards learned NOTHING from history. It took 70 years for free elections to return to the Soviet Union, but the KGB re-treds soon fixed that and imposed tyranny again.
PRCS says
https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/DZA
Algeria, governed by a very undemocratic theocracy (i.e., Islamic law) is also an Upper Middle Income Country to which–we, the people–provide greenbacks by the millions while they openly sentence “blasphemers”.
Does our government ever attach strings to so-called aid to such countries?
gravenimage says
It seems not. Check this out:
“Biden Admin: Yeah We Know the Terrorists We Want to Fund, Fund the Murder of Jews”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/03/biden-admin-yeah-we-know-the-terrorists-we-want-to-fund-fund-the-murder-of-jews
PRCS says
Yep.
gravenimage says
Algeria: Judge upholds Christian’s five-year prison sentence for posting Muhammad cartoon on Facebook
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Actually, he *didn’t* post the cartoon–someone sent it to him. He says he did not solicit it.
And this sentence may be even more draconian than it sounds–how much danger is this poor man going to be in in prison?
Andrew Blackadder says
Meanwhile muslims around the World laugh their heads off at the Western World while they walk over us and rape our children.
If one more person tells me that islam is a religion of peace……Im gonna ask them to prove it…
OLD GUY says
This is what’s coming if we continue the open border policies for islamic people. Islam wants to control every aspect of your life. Freedom of thoughts and speech will totally be subject to prison time or loss of your life. Total world dominance is the Islamic goal, with slavery, and the death of millions being the end result. Islam is not a religion of love and peace. Islam is a political ideology using religion to hide behind for it’s dictatorship one world rulers.
hammar says
mohammad was no prophet but a killer and was illiterate couldn’t read or write but loved the story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of the Egyptian Exodus. Only Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.
Timex says
It’s hard to say whether the election was stolen or if President Trump was just beat fair and square. Myself I think it was stolen.Either way what a disservice to the rest of the world the United States did by electing Joe Biden. It’s also pretty clear that he has no business being president along with vice president Harris . Immediately the rest of the world dynamics is changing and not in our favor or the western worlds.. Furthermore I don’t see Joe Biden finishIng his term. And if I’m right I see things only getting worse for millions of people and the changes will be irreversible. For starters let’s see how hard it will be for the government to release its power over us as citizens when it comes to wearing a mask.