Middle East Focus: Another Inquisition in Egypt, not Kosher in Islam…………

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Another Inquisition in Egypt, not Kosher in Islam…………

“An Egyptian rights group on Tuesday scoffed at a government pledge to limit use of its emergency law as an "illusion," after the interior ministry ignored a court's request to release seven Shiite Muslims. The Shiites, in detention since mid-2009, have been charged with "forming a group trying to spread Shiite ideology that harms the Islamic religion." "Continuing the 'revolving door' policy with detainees proves the amendments to the emergency law are an illusion," the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said in a statement. Parliament extended the law in May but pledged to restrict it to terrorism and narcotic cases. The law allows for indefinite detentions and trials by emergency courts which rights groups say are unfair and harsh. Police arrested 12 Shiites in April and May 2009, five of whom have since been freed. The remaining seven are being held despite five court rulings ordering their release……”

The court orders their release but the regime refuses. Nice legal system, what we used to call a watermelon legal system. And they had been “charged with "forming a group trying to spread Shiite ideology that harms the Islamic religion." Imagine: forming a ~~Protestant~~ Shi’a group that would harm the ~~Catholic Church~~ Islamic religion. Nothing about harming the 30-year regime of Hosni Mubarak. The country is becoming more Wahhabi-ized by the month, with the regime abusing and oppressing every group that does not conform or is different, from its famous War on Pigs to Christian Copts to Shi’s to Ahmadiyas to Bahai’s. Okay I take back the point about the War on Pigs- pigs, the four-legged ones are really different, besides, they are not kosher in Islam
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mhg

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