Bee's Note: Here is evidence that "democracy" means different things to different countries. Remember how "democracy" brought into power the Palestinian Hamas terrorists in Gaza? Ever since Hamas took over that strip of land, supposedly flowers would bloom and all would be "peaceful" ... instead, no flowers, only rockets and missiles sent into Israel. There is no democracy in any Islamic country - none. If they aren't pumping oil, they are pounding sand. What happens when the oil runs dry? They will be eating sand, because they sure aren't growing vegetables or opening up bakeries.
JIHAD WATCH
Egypt: Christian gets six years in prison for insulting Muhammad and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president
If the Left and Islamic supremacists get their way, this is the sort of sentence we will see handed down in the U.S. before too long. "Egyptian court sends Copt to prison over anti-Islam post," from Egypt Independent, September 18 (thanks to Twostellas):
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced a Christian teacher to six years in prison after convicting him of blasphemy and defamation of PresidentMohamed Morsy and a plaintiff lawyer, according to Egyptian news reports.The Sohag Misdemeanor Court found Bishoy Kamil Kamel guilty of insulting Prophet Mohamed, sentencing him to three years. He was also sentenced to two years for insulting the country’s president, and another year for insulting a plaintiff lawyer.Independent daily Al-Watan newspaper said on its website that security has been heightened outside churches in Sohag to preempt any violence in response to the verdict.Sohag’s prosecutor referred Kamel to trial in August after receiving a complaint from Mohamed Safwat Tammam, 32, accusing Kamel of posting insulting caricatures of Prophet Mohamed on his Facebook page, as well as abusing the country’s president in his comments.Kamel denied the charges during interrogations, claiming that his account had been hacked. Investigators say they had managed to detect his address through the account and arrested him.A number of lawsuits have been filed against public figures recently over charges of blasphemy and defaming the president, who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party....
