Egypt: Coptic Engineer Reportedly Arrested for ‘Contempt of Islam’ Over Facebook Posts
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October 8, 2026
Political Islam Around the World
CSPII Commentary: John Cleese was referred to Britain’s Prevent programme for calling Islam open to ridicule, and he answered that criticism of Islam is not racist and that the complaint was comedy material. Pickthall’s Koran 5:33 sets the penalty for those who “make war upon Allah and His messenger” as killing, crucifixion, amputation, or exile, the verse classical law uses against open defiance and that hate-speech rules now echo. The Islamic pressure is used to shut down critique and questions.