{"id":11463,"date":"2012-01-10T06:44:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2012-01-10T06:44:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:44:56","slug":"in-egypt-nobody-is-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11463","title":{"rendered":"In Egypt Nobody Is Above The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one is above the law in the new Egypt; however, we might want to take a close look at what the law says.<\/p>\n

Today’s U.K. Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0reports that Naguib Sawiris, Egypt’s richest man, is to be tried for retweeting a cartoon showing Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie Mouse wearing a black face-veil (as worn by the Salafis).<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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The case against Mr Sawiris, owner of the Orascom business empire and the country’s most prominent Christian, was filed originally by a group of lawyers affiliated to the radical Salafi Islamist movement. Few expected it to be taken up by the prosecuting authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the Salafis have become a powerful force in the new Egypt<\/a> after sweeping to second place behind the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Freedom and Justice Party in elections. They are pushing for tighter implementation if not a rewriting of Egypt’s constitution, which is supposed to be based on the principles of Sharia law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that Mr. Sawiris is actually going to be tried is a result of the “Arab Spring” in Egypt. It really doesn’t sound as if democracy and freedom are taking root.<\/p>\n

The article quotes Mamdouh Ismail, a member of the once-banned Gamaa Islamiya, who commented that he didn’t really expect the case to actually move forward. He also stated, “This shows that after the revolution nobody is above the law.”<\/p>\n

Frankly, it is a little disconcerting to watch that law evolve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No one is above the law in the new Egypt; however, we might want to take a close look at what the law says. Today’s U.K. Telegraph\u00a0reports that Naguib Sawiris, Egypt’s richest man, is to be tried for retweeting a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1780,85,1468,1779,1014,1778,1777,1469,106],"class_list":["post-11463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arab-spring-in-egypt","tag-egypt","tag-freedom-and-justice-party","tag-mamdouh-ismail","tag-mickey-mouse","tag-minnie-mouse","tag-naguib-sawiris","tag-salafi","tag-sharia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11475,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}