Egypt arrest Christian blogger

Washington Post:

 Egyptian blogger Alber Saber appeared in court here Wednesday, standing in a cage, pale and skinny, wearing jailhouse whites, his head shaved. He flashed a V for victory sign with his fingers to the spectators. His mother wept. 

The 27-year-old computer science major, a few credits shy of his college degree, from a Coptic Christian family, was arrested two weeks ago on charges of disdaining religion and ridiculing religious beliefs and rituals. 

After a mob of his neighbors laid siege to his home, and after he was arrested by police, media reports suggested that Saber had posted a link to the infamous YouTube video “Innocence of Muslims” on Facebook. 

The arrest points to stark differences in law and attitude regarding freedom of expression, especially as applied to religion, in the Middle East and the United States. 

His lawyers deny Saber had anything to do with the video, although they concede he did engage in ruminations on social media sites about the meaning of religion. 

Showing contempt toward what Egyptian statutes call the “heavenly” religions — Christianity, Islam, Judaism — is punishable by up to five years in Egypt.

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Wait a minute.  A radical Muslim cleric actually showed the trailer on his TV show to stir up the tantrums of a mob, and was not arrested, but this guy merely linked to the YouTube and is arrested?  It is clear that 'equal protection of the law' like freedom of speech is a foreign concept in Egypt.   This guy is not likely to get any support out of this administration, but someone should be standing up for his freedom to speak.  It does suggest that Muslims do not handle criticism well.