Egypt sentences Christian teens to jail for contempt of Islam

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http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-coptic-teens-hit-jail-sentence-contempt-islam-132419988.html

Cairo (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced three Coptic Christian teenagers to five years in jail for contempt of Islam after they were seen in a video mocking Muslim prayers.

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Defence lawyer Maher Naguib said the four had not intended to insult Islam in the video, but merely to mock the beheadings carried out by jihadists of the Islamic State group.

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Thursday's judgement comes a month after female writer Fatima Naoot was jailed for three years for insulting Islam after she criticised the slaughter of animals during a major religious festival.

And in December, an Egyptian court jailed controversial Muslim scholar Islam al-Behairy for one year for remarks he made on his television programme, in which he called for reforms in "traditional Islamic discourse".

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1. Speaks for itself, doesn't it?

[Initech]

2. And this is exactly why I am 150% against a constitutional convention.

Do you want Donald Trump supporters getting their hands on the first amendment and eliminating the part about religious freedom? Hell no! Because getting jailed for worshipping the wrong God is exactly what it leads to! And that's something that I would be willing to go to war for. We cannot allow that to happen under any circumstances. The first amendment is the best thing about being American. What happened in Egypt can't happen here.