Egypten: Bloggeren Kareem løslades – måske

I Burj al-Arab-fængslet 320 kilometer nordvest for Kairo sidder bloggeren Kareem. Den kun 25-årige Karim har været fængslet siden 6. november 2006 og blev dømt den 22. februar 2007 for fornærmelser imod islam og den egyptiske præsident, Hosni Mubarak. Man har bla. dømt ham for ateisme – apostasi:

• Atheism - due to some blog posts, for instance, the one titled “There is no God except Human beings”
• Spreading information and malicious rumors that disrupt public security
• Defaming the president of Egypt
• Incitement to overthrow the regime based upon hatred and contempt
• Incitement to hate “Islam” and to breach public peace standards; and
• Highlighting inappropriate issues that harm the reputation of Egypt and spreading these publicly

Det skriver Wikipedia. Altså rene spøgelsesanklager, der alene handler om, hvad Kareem har skrevet på sin blog.

Den 12. november 2007 lykkedes det Kareem at få et brev ud af fængslet. Det var adresseret til Kareems advokat og her stod bla., at Kareem udsættes for fysisk tortur i fængslet. Behandlingen af samvittighedsfangen, Kareem, har affødt protester fra hele verden.

Kareem forventes løsladt den 5. november i år, oplyser EkstraBladet, men man frygter, at det ikke vil ske, skriver FreeKareem.org. Reporters Without Borders skrev i januar i år, at der var indført besøgsforbud. Ikke engang Kareems advokat kan besøge ham. Løsladelsen var berammet til februar i år, men blev udsat, skriver Reporters Without Borders i en anden artikel.

FreeKareem har planlagt demonstrationer den 5. november. Såkaldte rallies vil finde sted i flere byer rundt omkring i verden. Officielt for at fejre Kareems løsladelse, men i værste fald for at demonstrere, hvis myndighederne alligevel ikke løslader Kareem.

FreeKareem.org og Amnesty International opfordrer alle til at skrive et gammeldags papirbrev, som skal sendes til Kareem. Brevkampagner har før vist sig effektive overfor myndigheder af denne slags. Jo flere breve fængslet modtager, des større er sandsynligheden for, at Kareem løslades.

HER kan man læse nogle enkle instruktioner om, hvordan man gør.

Veritas Universalis har fulgt Karims sag siden den startede:

• Bloggere bag tremmer
• Egyptens bloggere kæmper imod internetpolitiet
• Egyptens bloggere sidder stadig i fængsel
• Egypten: bloggeren Kareem tabte sin appelsag
• Den egyptiske blogger Kareem fik 4 års fængsel i dag
• Bloggere er Egyptens nye håb
• Den fængslede egyptiske blogger, Abdel Kareem Nabil midt i retssag

Andre kilder: The Earth Times, CNN, Reporters Without Borders, International Herald Tribune,

Note: Staves på flere måder – Abdel Karim Nabil Suleiman Amer.

Video: Interview med Robert Fisk

Nu skal vi høre, hvad de røde siger om Mellemøsten. Robert Fisk er Palæstina-supporter. Interviewet her er fra september 2010 – optaget lige omkring årsdagen for 9-11:

The Last Word : Yosri Fouda interviews Robert Fisk

He is the most famous reporter for Foreign Affairs in one of the oldest countries in the field of journalism, and deepest influence around the world. His career extends back for more than forty years, of which he spent – even now – thirty-four years taking Beirut as a base to cover the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

He was one of the first to arrive at the crime scene in the massacre of Sabra and Shatila during the civil war in Lebanon. He was targeted by the dirty propaganda machine of Israel and Israel’s friends in positions of power and information, lost his hearing in one ear during the first Gulf War, Mob severely beaten him during the U.S. attack on Afghanistan, and Osama bin Laden tried to convince him to convert to Islam during one of three meetings he had with the leader of al Qaeda.

He believes that the role of journalism is to challenge authority; any authority, especially when governments knock drums of war. This man who won major awards that great journalists around the world dream to win half of them, always refused to talk to the Arab and Israeli media at the same time, in order to preserve objectivity. today he talks to both of them and to other circles for the first time through an Egyptian TV channel.

Dear viewers, presenting to you the star of The Independent newspaper; wonderful Robert Fisk, correspondent for Middle East Affairs, and the Master to be emulated.

Sappho følger Geert Wilders’ retssag

Rapport fra processen mod Wilders II

12. October 2010 – Arthur Legger

Dommeren i processen mod Wilders lægger ikke skjul på sin antipati overfor Wilders, til gengæld begynder selv pæne, politisk korrekte hollændere at kunne se det forkerte i, at Wilders skal dømmes for sine holdninger til islam.

Arthur Legger fortsætter sin reportage fra retssalen i Amsterdam, her om onsdagens retshandlinger.

Mere her hos Sappho.

Rapport fra processen mod Wilders

6. October 2010 – Arthur Legger

Sapphos udsendte, Arthur Legger, beretter fra sin plads i retssalen  i Amsterdam om de første to dage i sagen mod Geert Wilders, der står anklaget for at opildne til had. Dommeren indledte med at give udtryk for sit mishag med Wilders, hvorefter Wilders krævede nye upartiske dommere for at undgå, at sagen ender ”som en skandaløs politisk proces”.

Mere her hos Sappho.

Opdatering 19. oktober 2010:

Rapport fra processen mod Wilders III

18. October 2010 – Arthur Legger

Arthur Legger rapporterer løbende fra den verserende sag mod Geert Wilders i Amsterdam. Dette er tredje indlæg i føljetonen om en farceagtig retssag, der ikke desto mindre har stor symbolsk betydning for ytringsfrihedens kår i Holland.

Never mind the truth.

The process against Geert Wilders has turned into a battle between the prosecutor and the court.

 Mere HER hos Sappho.

Opdatering 27. oktober 2010 fra Sappho:

Da dommerne blev kasseret

26. October 2010 – Arthur Legger

Fredag vandt vandt Wilders’ forsvarer Bram Moszkowicz (billedet) en stor sejr: Efter at have påvist, hvor partiske dommerne i sagen er, besluttede et uafhængigt dommerpanel at skifte dem ud. Læs Arthur Leggers reportage fra den begivenhedsrige dag i retten.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Rapport fra Vilks og Hedegaards rejse til USA & Canada

Besøg i den nye verdensorden

11. October 2010 – Lars Hedegaard

Velkommen til den nye verdensorden

Allerede da Lars Vilks og jeg steg ud af flyet i Philadelphia den 29. september fik vi et bevis på, at vi lever i en ny verden – en verden hvor demokratiske stater stadig har fine formuleringer om ytringsfrihedens ukrænkelighed i deres forfatninger, men hvor dagsordenen bliver sat af kræfter, der vil friheden til livs, og som er villige til at bruge alle midler, inklusive mord, for at nå deres mål.

Da vi var kommet to skridt ud af flyet, blev vi omringet af et større opbud af politifolk fra lufthavnspolitiet, FBI, Philadelphias politikorps samt civilklædte medlemmer af specialstyrken SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), let genkendelige ved, at de alle ligner sværvægtsboksere og går med pistoler, der ville have gjort Clint Eastwood misundelig. I øvrigt er SWAT-drengene hyggelige folk, der ikke lagde skjul på, at de betragtede det som en ære at beskytte mennesker, der er truet for deres meningers skyld.

Mere her hos Sappho.

Syrien: Teenage-blogger fængslet

Syrien har fængslet en 19-årig pige for blogging:

Syria: Why is Assad Afraid of a 19-Year-Old Girl?

By Khaled Abu Toameh – October 12, 2010

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has finally been able to get some sleep since one of the biggest threats to his regime has been removed.

He believes that President Barack Obama used a teenage blogger to spy on him and his regime. The girl has since been arrested and could spend the rest of her life in prison.

Assad’s notorious and ruthless secret services, the mukhabarat, deserve credit for “saving” the regime in Damascus from yet another US “conspiracy.”

Mere her hos Hudson New York.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia,

Moderate muslimer – et fatamorgana?

The Failure of Moderate Muslims

By Robert Spencer on Oct 12th, 2010

A Muslim chaplain at New York University, Khalid Latif, noting a recent debate at the university on the question of whether or not “Islam Is a Religion of Peace,” published a piece for CNN Monday saying that the answer is that “Islam is a religion of peace, or it isn’t.” Latif explains that “there is no one answer,” for “the Muslim community is by no means monolithic and viewing us as one is problematic. We are diverse.” Yet his own stance toward Islamic jihadists reveals the abject failure of self-proclaimed moderate Muslims in general to deal adequately with the global crisis within the Islamic world.

Latif complains that Muslims “find ourselves in a moment in which we are very narrowly understood. That normative understanding is equated to something radical, despite the fact that 93 percent of Muslims are found to be far from radical according to recent Gallup surveys.” Compounding this difficulty, he says, is that “typically when one of us from that 93 percent steps up to speak, we are vehemently told that we either do not represent Islam or even more absurdly that we are not truly practicing Islam’s teachings.”

Mere hos FrontPageMagazine her.

Muslimsk terror 12. oktober 2000

October 12t – A Day of Infamy 
 
By Phyllis Chesler

Do you remember where you were ten years ago today? That was the day that al-Qaeda bombed the USS Cole in Yemen. Seventeen sailors died in the attack.
 
But also on the very same day—two Israeli reservists, Vadim Norzich z”l, and Josef Avrahami, z”l, were lynched in the most barbaric fashion when they lost their way in Ramallah, which was the late Yasir Arafat’s headquarters.

I will never forget that day. That was the precise moment—and it preceded 9/11 by eleven months—that I knew, really knew, that the bloody beast was back, that we had entered an era of unending bloodshed. Over and over again, the footage was shown of the murderers who tortured, mutilated, and disemboweled the two Israelis, smiling like madmen, proudly displaying their hands smeared with Jewish blood. And how the Palestinian crowds cheered for them.

Mere hos Israel National News – Arutz Sheva HER.

Nonie Darwish om apostasi

Throwing Apostates to the Wolves

By Nonie Darwish – October 12, 2010

Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood founder, is lecturing all over the U.S. about how Muslims are the new “blacks” in America, victims of human rights violations equivalent to Jim Crow or worse. But while Muslims are demanding more and more special treatment, they seem to be conveniently ignoring what their religion is doing to apostates, Christians, and other minorities in 57 Muslim countries around the world.

The atmosphere in Egypt against Christians and Muslim apostates has recently reached a boiling point. Al Jazeerah TV recently broadcast a two-hour special attacking former Muslims, especially Naglaa El Imam, accusing them of proselytizing to Muslims. The program also described these individuals’ “horrific” sins against Allah as defined under Sharia. Al Jazeerah’s guest on that show was Islamist Dr. Selim el-Awah, former Secretary General of the World Council of Muslim Scholars. Without any evidence, El-Awah recklessly accused the Coptic Christian Church of stockpiling weapons and ammunition in monasteries in preparation for war against the Muslim majority in Egypt. He also accused the Church of concealing and aiding Muslim converts to Christianity — like a slave owner accusing a member of the underground railroad of harboring runaways. The degree of incitement against the Christian and former Muslim minority,  who only constitute about 15% of the population, was highly intimidating. Rumors spread rapidly all over Egypt that by the end of the current Mubarak administration, Egyptian Copts and apostates will suffer a massive massacre.

Mere her hos FrontPageMagazine.

Pressecensur anno 2010

Der kommer efterhånden flere islamiske censursager end man kan nå at dække.

Norge har lige haft en. Adresseavisen makulerede et oplag på 90.000 eksemplarer af avisens ugentlige tillæg.

Denne tegning til venstre var for farlig og avisens redaktør fik kolde fødder. Gæt, hvem man ser på billedet!

Jeg har pixeleret tegningen for ikke at komme i konflikt med copyrightlove, men man kan se den oprindelige tegning her i den norske version af Journalisten.

I USA har The Washington Post formået at skabe skandale ved hjælp af en manglende tegning, der ikke forestillede “profeten” Muhammed. Faktisk var omtalte svindler slet ikke med på billedet.

En fast avistegneserie ved navn Non Sequitur skulle denne gang have været et billede a la “Find Holger?”. Den konkrete variant hed “Find Muhammed”. Og joken var så, at Muhammed slet ikke var med på tegningen. Man skulle jo nødigt fornærme muslimer.

Denne manglende fornærmelse af muslimer, fandt Washington Post fornærmelig. Og tegningen, som man kan se her, kom slet ikke med i den trykte udgave af avisen.

Hvilket så igen i sin tur har fornærmet mange – både amerikanere og muslimer. Hvad skulle sådan en fornærmelse dog til for?

Andre kilder: Washington Post,

Opdatering 13. oktober 2010 fra Human Events:

The Washington Post’s Moral Collapse

By  Robert Spencer

Several years ago, in a key defeat for free speech, newspapers cowered before Muslim rage and refused to run cartoons of Muhammad. Now at the Washington Post they’re going one better, and refusing to run cartoons that don’t depict Muhammad—again, believe it or not, for fear of enraging Muslims. And once again, one of the nation’s most influential mainstream media outlets fails to see the free-speech implications of their cowardice and enabling of Islamic supremacism.

Mere her hos Human Events.