Someone call Bill Kristol and tell him this isn’t Democracy, it’s fascism:

AL ARABIYA – Egypt’s state prosecutor ordered on Tuesday an investigation into a claim that popular satirical show host Bassem Youssef insulted President Mohamed Mursi, a judicial source said.

On his show Al-Barnameg (The Program), Youssef, dubbed the Egyptian Jon Stewart, had poked fun at the ruling Islamists and Mursi’s temporary adoption of extensive powers in November and December.

He may be summoned for questioning after the case was transferred to a Cairo prosecutor for investigation, the source said.

“I don’t criticize, I satirize. I make fun, which is even more shocking. Whoever is in authority will have to deal with our program,” Youssef told Al Arabiya last month.

In a country where the lines are blurred between politics and religion, Youssef says he gets a lot of heat from Islamists whom he considers Egypt’s right wingers.

“Our right wing here in Egypt is different from the U.S. because people here are more emotional about religion, they can’t differentiate between politics and religion. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis are the right wing, I don’t deal with them as religious groups but as political groups,” he said.

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tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

“I don’t criticize, I satirize. I make fun, which is even more shocking. Whoever is in authority will have to deal with our program,” Youssef told Al Arabiya last month.

And I'm sure they will. ;-) ;-)

“Our right wing here in Egypt is different from the U.S. because people here are more emotional about religion, they can’t differentiate between politics and religion.

How could they? Islam IS the state, there is no difference between religion and politics. Only who is going to chop whose head of and when.

Islam_Sucks
Islam_Sucks

"When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows"

Frank Herbert

12grace
12grace

Pray for the good people of Egypt that really wanted to have freedom and a Republic as Egypt is in the hands of those who endorse Shari'a.

Lest, we forget.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/09/12/u-s-ambassador-killed-as-islamic-extremists-storm-embassies-in-libya-egypt/

U.S. Ambassador killed as Islamic extremists storm embassies in Libya, Egypt

Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM EDT

Working With the Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/opinion/roger-cohen-working-with-the-muslim-brotherhood.html?_r=0

Egypt's New Constitution Gives Extremists A Victory

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/122612-638398-new-constitution-shows-egyptians-cant-govern-themselves.htm

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

Any Gyp Muslim who steps out of line should get the same and more. I don't care how long it takes. Egypt has suffered so long that they need a good purging of the least of its infestation.

Nice going Egypto-Bros!

When can we expect those grotesque and moronic, Granite Tetons to be ground into rubble along with that ridiculous, pin-headed sphinx-ter? The sooner you lock that hell hole of a country away from the civilized world and drive it back into the stone age, the better.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

Any Gyp Muslim who steps out of line should get the same and more. I don't care how long it takes. Egypt has suffered so long that they need a good purging of the least of its infestation.

Nice going Egypto-Bros!

When can we expect those grotesque and moronic, Granite Tetons to be ground into rubble along with that ridiculous, pin-headed sphinx-ter? The sooner you lock that hell hole of a country away from the civilized world and drive it back into the stone age, the better.

Yazz55
Yazz55

This is what Obama threw Mubarak under the bus for.

warpmine
warpmine

Sheesh, we cannot even poke fun at Obama here without being labeled racists.

colliemum
colliemum

Dictatorships always fear and persecute the satirists who mock them.

Dictators know full well that mockery is the best way to undermine them.

It is also a well-known fact that the left has no sense of humour, doesn't understand satire and hates mockery. Their feeble attempts at 'wit' show why the POS is so entrenched. A few shows mocking him, seen by millions, would put an end to his overblown ego.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Leftists love to dish out mockery a la Alinsky, but they can't take it...and they certainly can't engage in civil debate or make decisions on the basis of hard evidence.

colliemum
colliemum

Well, what they dish out as 'mockery' is never funny and always in the worst possible taste.

And yep - they don't 'do' civil debate. My rule: if an unknown answers on a blog post with added personal invective, he's a leftie troll. Disengage.

As for hard evidence - not on your leftie's nelly! They don't 'do' facts or evidence, they do 'feelings'.

colliemum
colliemum

Well, what they dish out as 'mockery' is never funny and always in the worst possible taste.

And yep - they don't 'do' civil debate. My rule: if an unknown answers on a blog post with added personal invective, he's a leftie troll. Disengage.

As for hard evidence - not on your leftie's nelly! They don't 'do' facts or evidence, they do 'feelings'.

Wolfie
Wolfie

This man could well be dead within days. He should get out while he still can!

Wolfie
Wolfie

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

The talk show host might lose his head over this.

Constance
Constance

I suggest that his satirist pack up and move quickly. He and his kind are not welcome in the blossoming spring of democracy that is now Egypt. Time to find another home, dude. Otherwise, your face and your voice will just disappear one day, and nobody will know why. Until they find your corpse in a ditch somewhere.

Orangeone
Orangeone

The MB learned much from Hitler including how to dispose of bodies.

unclesamnephew
unclesamnephew

well i can say for certain, they would NOT be welcomed in Athens, Ohio. the libtards here can not tolerate free speach unless of course they are the ones speaking. just ask management where i work. they take a lot of flak for my signs.

Wolfie
Wolfie

What signs? (pics?)

unclesamnephew
unclesamnephew

the current sign states that "Obama the Butcher of Benghazi"

conservative58
conservative58

Does Egypt have such a thing as 'free speech'?

If they do, I'm sure it won't be for long...

Orangeone
Orangeone

They will soon find out what they've lost by licking Barky's boots. When they do, I will look them in the eye and laugh! Call it selfish, but I will defend myself but will step aside when Barky's gang does them harm.