80-Year-Old Egyptian Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison For Blasphemy

On November 18th, the Nozha Misdemeanors Court of Egypt sentenced noted lawyer and intellectual Ahmed Abdo Maher to five years in prison for "contempt of Islam." The case started when Samir Sabry, a controversial Egyptian lawyer, filed a complaint against Maher before the prosecutor general. Maher's lawyer said an investigation by an Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court claimed that Maher was "violating social peace and provoking sedition in his book." According to the investigation, Maher labeled the early Islamic conquests as military invasions. Maher also claimed that theses conquests were invasions "aimed to enslave women rather than spread Islam." Further, he demanded that Al-Azhar University, one of the world’s most important centers for Sunni-Islamic thought, apologize on behalf of Prophet Muhammad's descendants who initiated the conquest. The emergency state security court declared that Maher is stirring up sectarian strife and posing a threat to national unity.

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80-year-old Egyptian Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for "Contempt of Islam"

Location: Egypt