ANDREW BOSTOM:Morsi’s Sharia Justice: Death Penalties for Expatriate “Innocence of Muslims” Producers
Morsi at the UN: The Islamic sanctities and prophet Mohamed is a red line for all Muslims…We do not accept and we consider an enemy anyone who assaults our prophet through words or deeds
On September 23, 2012, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammad Morsi issued [2] presidential order No 1/2012 appointing 3,649 judges to Emergency State Security Courts (ESSC). The ESSC, which operated during Egypt’s 31-year state of emergency under the previous Hosni Mubarak regime, and the military transition to Morsi’s June, 2012 election to power, have notoriously violated [2] basic due process guarantees.
Today (11/28/12), consistent with both that three decades long ignoble history [2], and Islam’s ongoing, millennial, Sharia-based [3] rejection of freedom of speech, an Egyptian state security court issued a verdict [4] which sentenced six [4] (or seven [5]) expatriate Coptic Egyptians to the death penalty for “blaspheming” Islam. Egyptian Judge Saif al Nasr Soliman stated [5],
The [seven [5]] accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet.
Their specific “crime” was involvement in the production of the amateurish film, “The Innocence of Muslims [6],” which, despite its crude cinematography, accurately depicts [7] some of the less than salutary behaviors of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, as described in the sacralized Muslim biographical [8] sources [9].
Morsi, on September 13, 2012 proclaimed [10]:
The Islamic sanctities and prophet Mohamed is a red line for all Muslims…We do not accept and we consider an enemy anyone who assaults our prophet through words or deeds. I represent all the Egyptian people, I deprecate and I stand against whoever tries to abuse or exercise abuse of any kind against our prophet or any of the Islamic holy sites.
During a phone conversation with President Obama (Thursday 9/13/12), the Egyptian President asked [10] that Mr. Obama “put an end to such behavior.” One day earlier (9/12/12) the Egyptian cabinet demanded [10] that the Obama administration take legal action against the filmmakers, echoing the request of the Muslim Brotherhood [11], which has long insisted that such “blasphemy” of Islam be criminalized.
Less than two weeks later, Morsi reiterated [12] these sentiments to the United Nations General Assembly, opining angrily [12] (the Washington Post [12] characterized his voice as being “thin with anger”),
The obscenities that I have referred to that were recently released as part of an organized campaign against Islamic sanctities are unacceptable. We reject this. We cannot accept it. We will not allow anyone to do this by word or deed. [emphasis added]
Morsi’s angry pronouncements and the ensuing prosecution and convictions of those actually (and/or allegedly) involved with the production and promotion “Innocence of Muslims” producers by an Egyptian state security court are predictable, if ugly, and liberty-crushing consequences of Sharia mores [3], and “jurisprudence [3].” What should be of far graver concern to Americans is the extent to which the cowering Obama administration will further accede to Morsi’s Sharia supremacist demands.
Recall that professed “Innocence of Muslims” filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55-year-old Egyptian-American Coptic Christian, was arrested [13] in September 27, 2012 following global Muslim riots in response to the film, and ultimately imprisoned [14] (in early November , 2012) for violating his probation on a prior fraud conviction.
Just two days ago (11/26/12), Nakoula stated defiantly [15] from prison he harbored no regrets “at all” for having made the film, and communicating the “actual truth” about Muhammad. Now, if the Egyptian government, angered further by Nakoula’s defiance, seeks his extradition from a US prison, how will the Obama administration react?
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[1] Image: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/Morsi-UN.jpg
[2] issued: http://allafrica.com/stories/201211270272.html?viewall=1
[3] Sharia-based: http://www.amazon.com/Sharia-versus-Freedom-Islamic-Totalitarianism/dp/1616146664/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354116021&sr=8-1&keywords=sharia+versus+freedom
[4] verdict: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/59363/Egypt/Politics-/Six-expat-Copts-receive-death-penalty-sentence-for.aspx
[5] seven: http://news.sky.com/story/1017714/anti-islam-film-seven-face-death-sentence
[6] The Innocence of Muslims: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM
[7] accurately depicts: http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/10/innocence-of-muslims-dissected.html
[8] biographical: http://www.amazon.com/Life-Muhammad-I-Ishaq/dp/0196360331/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348621470&sr=1-1&keywords=Guillaume+%2B+Ishaq
[9] sources: http://pjmedia.com/blog/free-speech-muhammad%E2%80%99s-character-%E2%80%94-and-ours/
[10] proclaimed: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/egyptian-president-calls-blasphemy-red-line-clinton-invokes-free-expression
[11] echoing the request of the Muslim Brotherhood: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/hurting-muslims-feelings-cannot-be-tolerated-egypt-s-ruling-party-says
[12] reiterated: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/egypts-president-morsi-tells-un-insults-to-muhammad-unacceptable/2012/09/26/fef14e46-07f3-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html
[13] arrested: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anti-islam-filmmaker-nakoula-basseley-nakoula-arrested-probation/story?id=17343351#.ULYsdIZKB20
[14] imprisoned: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/innocence-muslims-filmmaker-sentenced.html
[15] defiantly: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/innocence-muslims-filmmaker-regrets/story?id=17812860#.ULYfW4ZKB20
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