On September 23, 2012, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammad Morsi issued presidential order No 1/2012 appointing 3,649 judges to Emergency State Security Courts (ESSC). The ESSC, which operated during Egypt's 31-year state of emergency under the previous Hosni Mubarak regime, and the military transition to Morsi's June, 2012 election to power, have notoriously violated basic due process guarantees. Today (11/28/12), consistent with both that three decades long ignoble history, and Islam's ongoing, millennial, Sharia-based rejection of freedom of speech, an Egyptian state security court issued a verdict which sentenced six (or seven) expatriate Coptic Egyptians to the death penalty for "blaspheming" Islam. Egyptian Judge Saif al Nasr Soliman stated, The [seven] accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet. Their specific "crime" was involvement in the production of the amateurish film, "The Innocence of Muslims," which, despite its crude cinematography, accurately depicts some of the less than salutary behaviors of Islam's prophet, Muhammad, as described....
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