Egypt's Bible-burning preacher sees prison sentence cut to 5 years.
An Egyptian appeal court has rejected the appeal of radical cleric Abu Islam who was jailed after burning a Bible at a protest.
Abu Islam's sentence, originally set at 11 years in prison, was reduced by the court to five years.
Ahmed Abdullah, a radical TV preacher known as Abu Islam, burned copies of the Bible during a rally against an anti-Islam film outside the US embassy in Cairo on 11 September 2012. He also told the crowd he would send his grandson to urinate on the Bible.
In June, a court sentenced him to 11 years in prison and a LE3,000 fine over the incident. His son, who had been sentenced to eight years and a LE2,000 fine, also saw his sentence reduced on Tuesday, to five years.
In a separate case in July 2013, a court sentenced Abu Islam to three years in prison for offending Christianity.
Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/89360.aspx
Bible-burning preacher sees prison sentence cut to 5 years
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Re: Bible-burning preacher sees prison sentence cut to 5 yea
Mmm would the sentences have been reduced had they been burning copies of the Koran? somehow I think not
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Hard for me to imagine how anybody can hate something not intrinsic to them to such a level that they have to resort to burning the religious books of another. I just don't get it.
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At the end of the day it all boils down to intolerance.
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