Men In Sudan Jailed For Selling Book On Mohammed’s Child Bride
A Sudanese court reportedly has sentenced two Egyptian men to six months’ imprisonment for harming Islam after they marketed a book deemed critical of one of Mohammed’s wives.
The men, who work for an Egyptian publishing house, were arrested at an international book fair in Khartoum while promoting a book on Aisha, who Muslim historians record as one of Mohammed’s 12 wives and concubines.
According to an authoritative Hadith — the traditions and sayings of Mohammed — the middle-aged prophet’s marriage to Aisha was consummated when the girl was nine years old. Often called “the mother of believers,” she was said to have been the favorite wife of Mohammed, who died when she was 18.
The Egyptians, Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Raouf and Mahrous Mohammad Abdel-Aziz, were sentenced Sunday after being convicted under a section of the Sudanese penal code that deals with insulting religious beliefs or inciting hatred and contempt for religion.
Eleven Mideast human rights groups signed a statement in Cairo condemning the latest verdict and sentence.
They cited eyewitnesses as saying the agents who arrested the two Egyptians had been accompanied by members of a Wahhabist fundamentalist group, one of whom apparently bought a copy of the book and then complained to the authorities.
In the statement, released through the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, the groups said the trial was speedy and unfair, since the defendants reportedly did not have legal representation
After their arrest last week, Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardhi was quoted as saying the book contained blasphemous passages regarding Mohammed and “the mother of believers.”
(cnsnews)
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December 18th, 2007 at 5:05 pmThey can’t handle the truth.
This is key to putting Islam in it’s place, the educating of the masses will turn the world around.
Shhh! Can’t let the truth get out now, the world might find out that he was a pedophile after all!
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December 19th, 2007 at 2:25 am