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March 18, 2007
It's About Time
According to Reuters,
The United States on Thursday condemned an Egyptian appeals court ruling that upheld a jail sentence for a blogger convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak."His conviction is a setback for human rights in Egypt," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
The State Department should have done this on the day Abdel-Karim Nabil Suleiman (aka Kareem Amer) was arrested. Everyday after that makes it all the harder to reverse. Arresting and convicting a person for what they say, short of suggesting violence, about a religion or a political leader should be condemned reflexively as a "setback for human right." Such condemnation does not require months of thought and consideration. The very laws that limit such speech should be condemned starting on the day anyone seriously suggests them not after such laws are enacted and someone is sent to jail. We see the equivalent of this going on all over Europe under the pretense of so-called "anti hate laws" and we see it on our own college campuses under the same pretense.
Via PaleoJudaica
Posted by Duane Smith at March 18, 2007 9:33 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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