Sharia In Action: Egypt Bans Porn
- Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:30pm by
Mytheos Holt
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CAIRO (AP/The Blaze) — An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values.
The decision and a similar initiative in parliament has fed into fears by liberal and secular Egyptians that their country is moving down the path to fundamentalist Islam, following a sweeping victory by Islamists in parliamentary elections.
The ruling Wednesday came from a lower court and can be appealed. Three years ago a court made a similar ruling, but it was not enforced because at the time, officials argued filtering systems were not effective.
Human rights activists criticized the latest ruling and warned it was a violation of freedom of information in an already conservative society.
The pornographic website issue recently underlined the Islamist domination of parliament, when an ultraconservative lawmaker presented a query asking the government to ban pornographic websites because they endangered the morality of the country’s youth. The lawmaker asked the government to introduce legislation banning sites that promote corruption and immorality.
Internet specialists said trying to ban pornography with a court ruling or legislation is ineffective. The use of parental controls is considered a more common way to curb access of minors to offensive content.
“It is very hard to implement and is … a waste of resources,” said lawyer Soha Abdel-Attie of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights. She said it was not clear if the new court order builds on the previous case or was a new ban.
Others said the ban is a violation of freedom of expression and information and could be followed by other steps to censor dissidents.
Ramy Raoof, an online activist, said during the regime of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak, the government blocked websites of Islamists for brief periods during election times to curb their activities.
During the 18-day uprising that toppled Mubarak, the government blocked the Internet for several days in an attempt to disrupt communications among activists. The measure failed to curb huge street protests against the regime.
Raoof said barring information is not a practical way to tackle social problems. He said such a court order was broad, lacking specifics on how to implement the ban, how to monitor its implementation, and what sites were deemed offensive.
“Censorship presumes that citizens are dumb and lack knowledge, and that the state must carry out that role for them because it knows better,” he said. “If you want to protect people from trouble, it is never through withholding information.”
Last month Tunisia‘s highest court overturned a similar court ban on pornographic websites that attempted to restore the filtering system in place before the country’s revolution against its longtime leader. The court sent the case back to a lower tribunal for review.
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Comments (78)
soybomb315
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:42pmthe muslimbrotherhoodie
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:48pmwould have been more funny with a space in there
Report Post »A. James
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:55pmActually, a space wouldn’t have helped make it funny. Maybe a new joke would have made it funny?
Report Post »sURFNmADNESS
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 12:12amHeard all around Egypt..
Brotherhood Freedom Finally!…..err,….wait….what? No porn? But Freedom means……..ah crap.
Report Post »dataway
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:36pmWe would ALL be better off without PORN! They have the right idea for sure.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:50pmgovernment should just make it illegal….because the war on drugs has kept the bad guys in jail and the drugs off the street, huh?
Report Post »toto
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 12:41amPorn is not a healthy endeavor. Outlawing seldom works, but it should be hard to get and fines when caught punitive. Use the funds to treat STD’s so that the people generating the expenses have more of a role in paying for care. As a society, we have removed almost all taboos and the idea that one should be responsible for the costs and consequences of their behavior legal or not.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 3:16amEgyptians HAD internet porn when they were gang-raping Lara Logan in the streets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO12X1nhzzk
What they ought to ban is Islam.
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:21pmOK! I just had the greatest black market idea of all time…….
If any one can help I need a plane…..lots of porn
Report Post »and if anyone can speak Egyptian
Libertarian
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:09pmThis is where people and candidates like Santorum fall off the philosophical-bus.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-16/news/31202806_1_romney-and-santorum-andrea-saul-santorum-points
Santorum is using the utilitarian arguments liberals do in squashing our freedoms. Gun kills people, the fork makes you fat, expensive items make people steal, the way your neighbor’s wife dresses makes you covet her and pornography destroys marriages.
The Republican Party is broken, how dare they offer us up Bush R. Santorum the moral-fascist, Mittens the fip-floppin liberal, Newt-the-Globalist Fabian and Ron Paul the consistent grumpy old constitutionalist. I will take the old man.
I had a dream, my dream was that we had a brokered convention and Ron Paul endorsed his son for President Rand Paul. His son steam rolled the entire field of Republicans and went on to squash Obama in the general.
Report Post »Loki
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:25pmgreat idea….
Report Post »combine freedom to FAP and freemarket system, give porn to the pornless…
maybe if the members of islam got lucky once in awhile, maybe they wouldnt blow themselves up for 72 imaginary virgins… lol
Spqr1
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 12:47pmThey speak ARABIC in Egypt, NOT ‘Egyptian.” More evidence of the general ignorance of the average Beckian…
Report Post »gooeylewie
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 1:20pm@libertarian
if you would have taken the time to look at where that story actually started, you wouldn’t have mentioned it here.
But then again, facts are stubborn things that can get in the way our political agendas.
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 6:02pm@Spqr1
So sorry for the mistake. Thanks for correcting me and calling me and other Blazers ignorant . It was so nice of you to stop by and make me feel SO! dumb. NOW do you know anyone who speaks ARABIC, so I can get them some porn.
Keep smiling friend
Report Post »Bob
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:03pmIt’s a good thing that Osama bit the big one, now he won’t know what he missed. That burka shot at the top was sort of a switch thrower in my mind. The problem with it is you don’t know if its a guy under there or not. Things are sure messed up.
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:50pmThe woman in the Headline pic is kinda selling me on Muslim fashion…….I’m just sayin. I’m getting my wife a Burka.
Report Post »JimG521
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:35pmI’m going to be excoriated for this, but good! Sharia is garbage, and so is porn. I‘ve seen too many men’s lives destroyed – families lost, jobs lost – because of their addictions to this trash to be upset that someone is stepping up and acknowledging this problem.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:49pmPorn causes Sex Adiction… and Guns cause Murder! The poor Humans are just Innocent Victims… unable to cope with Evil Objects!
Good Luck with that philosophy!!!
Report Post »JimG521
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:33pmFalse analogy there. What you were aiming for is something more like, “It isn‘t cocaine’s fault people get addicted to it,” which I agree with. But people don’t know or realize all the things that happen when they view pornography.
I admit I’ve studied more about this than normal people, but look into it a bit. Porn addiction and drug addiction are very similar when you look at how the brain works.
Report Post »Wilma
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:47pmI’m with you JIMG521. Thank you for standing up for women.
Report Post »Wilma
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:49pmJIMG521, thank you for standing up for women.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 4:00amLOL :) Women, Clergy, and DoGood-ers… used about the same Reasoning to create PROHIBITION… which inspired BathTubGin, Black Markets, Blind Pigs, Organized Crime, Kids selling Booze in School, Street Murders, about same amount of Drinking, even worse affects, and a Federal Gestapo breaking into Homes & Businesses!
But, you guys seem not to be able to see the simularity… to your desire to Help, and make all Humans conform to your Ideal of a More Perfect World, where people Vote Obama!
Report Post »JimG521
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 5:55pmYou’re all sorts of not well, speaking of how the brain works.
First, this has nothing to do with the current president. I disagree with him every time he opens his mouth, and don’t recall ever disliking anyone more.
Back to the subject, would a ban (or at least minimal effort to enforce federal, state, and/or local laws that already exist – look them up) on obscene material drive people “underground” to get it? Probably so, and fine. Would it keep me from getting a bunch of virus-laden emails, b.s. pop-up ads, and more importantly, help keep my kids from seeing naked women before they turn 10? Also fine.
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:34pmI don’t believe in taking away your individual freedoms! I don’t believe porn does any harm to begin with! Yeah, OK, call me a Liberal, what ever, but I also have no debt and save my money like there is no tomorrow! I guess you cannot call me a Republican because I don’t believe in taking away individual freedoms (including porn) because of religious beliefs! After all, don’t I have a right in making my own decisions (Independent)? Doesn’t everyone have that same rights? So why do you judge then? If I want to go to a strip club and enjoy the show then it’s none of your business! Get out of my face then! I’m no better than the next person and never think of myself as being better to begin with!
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:23pmWell of course they don’t want to come home after a hard day of stoning a bunch of women and then have to look at thier nakedness cause that would be wrong RIGHT?
Report Post »Drithe
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:01pmtest?
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:12pmYes, I had the same problem.
Report Post »Drithe
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:00pmWithout access to porn …….. this country is nothing! If you took american’s porn away we would have a way every month.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:48pmthe government has a war against everything else (drugs, obesity, terror, smoking), why not porn
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:54pm“An Egyptian court has ordered the government…” Who is running that country?
Oh, and by the way; banning pornography? Good luck with that!
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:37pm“An Egyptian court has ordered the government…”
Who is running that country?
Oh, and by the way; banning porn? Good luck with that!
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:11pmDang! Sorry for the double post. The first post took so long to show up, I thought that it hadn’t gotten through.
Report Post »GumRock
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:22pmNZKIWI you nailed it .
Report Post »Good Luck ! HAHAHAhahahahah
N1663RJ1M
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:26pmLock up your sheep.
Report Post »nosharia
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:09pmThis is a glimpse of why Syria is fighting back.. Good riddance to as many muslim brotherhood as they can do away with.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:06pmAn Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values.hahahahaha Savages have values? Ah this is rich,values hmmm let’s see,oh yes executing Christians and burning their churches I guess the MB is good for something,heads will be rolling in the streets,enjoy your Arab spring with all the corpses you‘ll have it won’t smell as good as Irish
Report Post »spring but you‘ll have your Mullah’s running your country just like they do in Iran.
DasAmerican
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:03pmDidnt they find a bunch of Porn in Bin Ladens house! he watched CNN and loved porn with multiple wives……..?…….Sounds like a Democrat to me :P
Report Post »Marine25
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:19pmOr Newt Gingrich.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:45pmsmoke ‘em if you got ’em
Report Post »ronljl
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:03pmJust so long has they don’t take “Me and Yew” off the air!!
Report Post »EndTheGOPTEA
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:44pmIs Santorum in Egypt?
Report Post »LOL.. All the GOP Clowns are the same.. Never Vote GOP!!!
junior1971
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:09pmThe ladies there had better get themselves Robinhood chastity belts and crash helmets cause they are surely in for it with the crazy misoginistic guys who live in that God awful place! Pray for them.
Report Post »Just_Us
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:10pmOh I thought it was the Democrats that LOVE Islamist and HATE Israel. Democrats preach tolerance but practice hate. You can’t have it both ways hypocrite. So in practice, you hate the evil Jews, hate Christians, but love Islam but hate bans on Porn even though the ones you love have banned it, all the while you scream for tolerance, but never tolerate anyone but yourself. You are terrified to offend the people who are actually doing the banning because you are a coward, so you blame someone else for a ban that was done by others? You are one sick and confused neophyte. If you don’t like the ban, tell a Muslim, But we are a wee bit scared of someone who will take your head now aren’t we. What a pathetic weak joke.
Report Post »Toxic Pirate
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:38pmOK I think someone is logged in over at MSNBC now so you can skeediddel!!
Report Post »SoupSammich
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:45pm@ Just_us
Report Post »Succinct and on the money. Best troll retort I have seen in a while.
Zenzazin
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:00pm@Just_Us- You must be incredibly insightful to get that entire message from what @Endthegoptea wrote, because all it looked like to me was pointing out the similarities between this Shariah law in Egypt and Santorum calling for an end to porn in the US (using similar reasoning, too). And accusing this person of being intolerant of different opinions simply because they posted a contrary opinion to your own? It is comforting to see how many people on here are open to actual dialogue and discussion……..
Report Post »SoupSammich
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:13pmZenzenzen-
Report Post »Enlighten us on shariah. Do you thing “endthegoptea” is agena driven or am I just pulling that out of thin air? Troll defender is such a prestigous title. Cape and all or just the high brow attitude and zero sense of humor like every lefty I have ever mocked?
barber2
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:38pmThis might be the point at which our Hollywood “ Hate Israel ” Obama folks part ways with their Arab Spring buddies . No porn ? No way….( wonder how Communist governments feel about porn…)
Report Post »808Americans
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:37pmAloha,
Report Post »[confusion]
Ahhh…
Ok.
Hi.
So hurray for Porn???
ronin_6
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:36pmYou folks made your bed now sleep in it.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:35pmAn Egyptian court has followed the lead of Rick Santorum and banned porn.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:44pmBut I thought Democrats all loved the Arab Spring ? Freedom ! Freedom ! They supported this democratic revolution . Why they LOVE a revolution ! Look at our Occupies…
Report Post »SoupSammich
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:51pmDon’t confuse Encinomom any more than she already is. This will put a hurtin on all the guilt aid coming out of hollywood for the towelies and their springs. PETA should head over to handle all the stress that is going to be put on the goats and sheep. Where is the rage over that?
Report Post »Zenzazin
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:01pmdo you two really not understand that Santorum called for an end to porn in the US, too, using similar reasoning? who’s confused??
Report Post »SoupSammich
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:09pmI counted on my abacus and Santorum=1. Not shilling for Santorum, are you shilling for shariah?
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:35pm“Human rights activists criticized the latest ruling and warned it was a violation of freedom of information in an already conservative society.”
Ah come on already, we know about Sharia law. pfft.
And I know some Baptist Pastors that would like to the same over here…so we now have agreement, eh?. lol
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:32pm@SamIamTwo
Report Post »Yea,But I know some Catholic priest that would be really pissed if we do!
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:35pmEgyptian porn probably sucks anyhow.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:37pmYeah, like seeing a belly button would be porn to them…seriously.
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:23pmNO little boys are the preferred toys
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:36pm@On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
“Egyptian porn probably sucks anyhow.”
I should hope so! BAdoom boom.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:51pmporn is america’s best export
Report Post »SnowKalBebes
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 1:36pm@ Mikev5 – Just like catholic priests right
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:32pmwhat has this world come to?
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:35pmFirst, they make all the women cover up in tarps over there, so you can’t see them, then they ban all the pictures of females in an unclothed state. I guess all those poor horny Muslim guys are gonna have to stand around the corral ogling sheep from now on……..enjoy your democracy you idiots!!..lol
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:24pmnice one TXPilot
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:50pm@MIKEV5……..Baaahaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!……lol!
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