Proving once again that laughing at orthodoxy is about as subversive as it gets:
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state
prosecutors issued an arrest warrant Saturday for a popular television satirist
for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's president, in the latest legal
action to take aim at a critic of the nation's Islamist leader.
The warrant against
Bassem
Youssef is also the latest in a series of legal actions against the
comedian, who has come to be known as Egypt's
Jon
Stewart. Youssef's widely-watched weekly show, "ElBernameg" or The Program,
has become a platform for lampooning the government, opposition, media and
clerics.
The fast-paced show has
attracted a wide viewership, but has also earned itself its fair share of
detractors. Youssef has been a frequent target of lawsuits, most of them brought
by Islamist lawyers who have accused him of "corrupting morals" or violating
"religious principles."...
Go figure--the same thing happens to wisenheimers in Canada (except here it happens, comically enough, in the name of protecting "victims" and upholding their "human rights").
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