In a news article I found titled "Blogger Gets Four-Year Jail Term for Insulting Islam", a 22-year old was sentenced to a four-year jail term for "using his Web postings to criticize the Islamic religion, the Prophet Muhammad and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak."
I think that 1.) being Americans and 2.) our using the internet with no real fear of getting arrested makes us forget that in other countries, free speech still does not exist. It makes me sad that people can't even post their own thoughts on a personal blog. If you can't do it on the internet, where can you? For all the technological advancements that have been made, it's surprising that some cultures seem stuck in a rut. 3 of the 4 years on the sentence were for insulting Islam, and the last year was for insulting the President of Egypt.
How sad.
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