Mohammed-movie filmmakers sentenced to death in Egypt

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Martinus

November 29, 2012, 03:48:26 AM
QuoteEgyptian Christians sentenced to death for Islam film

(Reuters) - A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and prompted violent protests in Muslim countries.

"The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet," Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman said.

The low-budget video, produced privately in California, denigrated the Prophet Mohammad and triggered anti-U.S. protests and attacks on Western embassies around the Muslim world.

The convicted persons included Egyptian-American Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, who is currently serving a one-year-jail term in Los Angeles after an American court convicted him of probation violations that stemmed from his role in the movie.

The 13-minute video portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a fool and a sexual deviant, although cast members have said they were misled into appearing in a film they believed was an adventure drama called "Desert Warrior."

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church did not issue an official comment on the ruling.

"The Church denounced the movie, which it has nothing to do with. As for today's case, it is a court ruling and the Church does not comment on court decisions," said a Church source who asked not to be named.

Christians make up around 10 percent of Egypt's 83 million people and many complain of discrimination in work and treatment.

(Reporting and writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Jason Webb)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/us-egypt-christians-court-idUSBRE8AR0J320121128

Remind me of this next time I forget myself and consider muslims to be more than savage animals.

Valmy

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November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
Why does it always have to be death?  Why can't it just a fine or probation or something?

'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'
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Martinus

#2
November 29, 2012, 09:01:01 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
Why does it always have to be death?  Why can't it just a fine or probation or something?

'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'

Because muslims are primitive savages.

CountDeMoney

#3
November 29, 2012, 09:25:30 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'

:lol:  "You'll get time served...in hell!"

Scipio

#4
November 29, 2012, 05:43:02 PM
WTG, religion of peace.
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viper37

#5
November 30, 2012, 01:43:04 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
Why does it always have to be death?  Why can't it just a fine or probation or something?

'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'
The Coran does not speak of 'community service'.
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#6
November 30, 2012, 01:49:32 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 30, 2012, 01:43:04 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
Why does it always have to be death?  Why can't it just a fine or probation or something?

'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'
The Coran does not speak of 'community service'.

I thought the Koran specified that "community service" for Muslims was expanding the Dar-El Islam. :hmm:

Christians don't get this option though.
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The Brain

#8
November 30, 2012, 02:29:46 PM
Islam? More like Islame. Am I right or am I right?
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garbon

#9
November 30, 2012, 02:42:54 PM
You is lame?
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#10
December 02, 2012, 06:04:05 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 30, 2012, 01:43:04 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
Why does it always have to be death?  Why can't it just a fine or probation or something?

'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'
The Coran does not speak of 'community service'.
Koran :contract:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Neil

#11
December 02, 2012, 06:09:46 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 02, 2012, 06:04:05 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 30, 2012, 01:43:04 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
Why does it always have to be death?  Why can't it just a fine or probation or something?

'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'
The Coran does not speak of 'community service'.
Koran :contract:
Meh.  You can translitrate from barbarian to English a million different ways.
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#12
December 02, 2012, 06:13:53 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 30, 2012, 02:29:46 PM
Islam? More like Islame. Am I right or am I right?

:D 

Or Islaren't.

Razgovory

#13
December 02, 2012, 07:26:26 PM
Quote from: Neil on December 02, 2012, 06:09:46 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 02, 2012, 06:04:05 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 30, 2012, 01:43:04 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 29, 2012, 08:59:31 AM
Why does it always have to be death?  Why can't it just a fine or probation or something?

'Community service for all those who insult the Prophet!'
The Coran does not speak of 'community service'.
Koran :contract:
Meh.  You can translitrate from barbarian to English a million different ways.

You don't have to transliterate from French.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Neil

#14
December 02, 2012, 08:15:32 PM
Sometimes you do.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.
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