Internet Human Rights Alert – Egyptian Blogger Abdel Kareem disowned by father
From Egypt's Rantings of a Sandmonkey : "[Embattled Egyptian Blogger] Abdel Kareem's father announced today that he is disowning Abdel Kareem, and that he would like to see Sharia Law applied to his son, in which he would have 3 days to repent at the end of which if he is not repentant, he would be killed."February 18, 2007 - 4:45 pm
“The Father also announced that he intends to disown his son publicly in court – accompanied by his Koran-memorizing 4 other children – the day of the verdict in order to ‘lift the pressure’ that the civil society and human rights organization maybe imposing on the Court. He also called the Human Rights organizations who are fighting for his son’s freedom ‘Chimps Rights Organizations’ since ‘they are defending a Chimp like Abdel Kareem’ who is emulating the west in ‘their thinking and opinions’. Nice, eh?
Why do I have the feeling that this court session will be a circus?”
Help free Kareem here.
This is tragic but certainly business-as-usual in these Islamic countries.
I’ve just finished reading an almost unbelieveable book by Mina Nevisa called “Miracle of Miracles” about her life in Iran and her secret conversion to Christianity in her early 20s. She was from a prominent family and her father was a professor in Islamic studies in Tehran.
When the authorities–who had just executed her first cousin–found out she was an apostate, they came to her home to arrest her.
The story is about her narrow escape out the back door and ultimately out of Iran forever. Her family renounced her and the father would not even let her name be spoken in the home.
There is more to the story, but this young man who is blogging in Egypt needs all the help from us he can get, or he is probably a dead man walking.
Good golly, Miss Molly.
Another heretofore unrevealed LOW from the not even 3rd World.
Someone has to say it with no nuance whatsoever, and fortunately it’s a d*** easy call. I don’t want to hear any more about how we ‘have’ to appreciate the ‘differences’ in alternative cultures. We must be more ‘sophisticated’ in our approach to a ‘certain’ belief structure.
As the commander said in Bastogne–NUTS !!
These f****** people are as Mad As Hatters . If I wanted to live in the 14th century, I would invent a time machine. But I DON’T. And more importantly I surely don’t want these ‘people’ feeling that they have any right to direct the course of my existence because I am an accursed ‘Infidel’.
It’s becoming increasingly clear, I fear, that like in those old Westerns, where the forces of ‘progress’ had finally to confront the forces of ‘primitivism’, that sooner rather than later this town won’t be big enough for the both of us..
And I ain’t leavin’. Are you ?
I guess the authorities have found some new and exciting ways of leaning on the old boy. It seems to me he ought to be very proud of his son.
Karim’s ‘crime’ was being an outspoken freethinker and critic of the Mubarak regime – in Arabic. So another actual moderate Muslim faces death for his beliefs. Will the West continue to support totalitarians and Islamists?
Hi all this sounds so familiar, these islamic states are making life difficult for themself in the big world as we know it. It is the right for everyone to have free speach and the right to be challenged and questioned about the topic in hand, but for your family to disown you for it is criminal and insaine. In reply to Webutante’s comments on the book Miracle on Miracles try raeding “Princess” by Jean P. Sasson this is a furter inditement of how mixed up these poeple are.
I just go to Karim blog and is with some interferences to view it in Argentina.Anyway,I signed for his release.Like Zahra Kamalfar,the Karim case is another one of those regimes who condem people for its beliefs or words.