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The Blogger and the Pharaoh
[Boston Globe] Editorial - Judging by the four-year sentence handed out to young Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil last week - three years for disparaging Islam and one for insulting President Hosni Mubarak - Egypt's government is suffering from an acute case of hypersensitivity. The blogger offended Islamist radicals as well as Egypt's political rulers with a posting in 2005 that decried anti-Christian riots in Alexandria where he had witnessed beatings of Egyptian Copts and the looting of Coptic-owned stores. The blogger deserves to be defended by democrats everywhere. Egypt is campaigning to be host of the UN Internet Governance Forum in 2009, and the world's democracies could start by opposing that bid.