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...audience he wouldn't joke at the expense of "the vulnerable." Salon's Rebecca Traister wrote that, "We need to remember that whatever is happening to Spears right now is happening not for our amusement, but to her detriment." Rosie O'Donnell posted a sympathetic haiku on her blog, saying "britney... my heart breaks; i want to smash those photographers; with something heavier; than an umbrella." A Google search pulls up the phrase "Leave Britney Alone" on 129 blogs and there are multiple online petitions to get the paparazzi off Spears' back. Kristin Scott of Bloggingbaby.com told her readers...
...chill has just gone through the collective spine of the bloggers of the Middle East. On Thursday, Egypt sentenced Abdel Kareem Suleiman (a.k.a. "Kareem Amer" online) to four years in prison - three years for blog posts that insulted Islam and one year for similar writings that defamed President Hosni Mubarak. While bloggers have been harrassed and a couple arrested by Mideast governments in the past, this is the first time one has been sentenced to prison. Before Kareem's arrest and conviction, internet writing was considered a safe and open venue for many young men and women in the region...
...Kareem's blog posts would not have been that different. For example, he wrote about how he wanted to become a human rights lawyer working for the betterment of "Muslim and Arabic women." But his blog also condemned sacred Muslim rituals like fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. He mocked Islamic liturgies by saying "there is no God but the human being." He also posted his opinions on Coptic blogs - set up by the remnant of Egypt's pre-Islamic Christian community - which made him a target for accusations of heresy and apostasy. In November Kareem was detained, interrogated...
...year-old law student studying in Al Azhar University, one of the oldest colleges in the world, soliciting his readers help against all forms of discrimination. In truth, Kareem had been expelled from the university in 2006 after clashing with the school's conservative administration. Azhar officials considered his blog writings too critical of the school and its religious scholars. Kareem then had difficulty enrolling in another law school. Describing his distaste for his Al Azhar University experience he wrote last October about the religiously-run instution's "infiltration of public life and its control of people's behavior...
...sentence surprised Gamal Eid, the Executive Director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. The most blog-repressive regimes had been Tunisia, followed by Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya, which have blocked sites and limited internet access. Eid had written earlier in the year that "the Egyptian bloggers, in particular, are pioneers who have guided other Arab bloggers" and that, despite limited numbers, the influence and popularity of Arab bloggers "have exceeded all expectations. The blogs act as a pain in the tooth for many Arab governments which fear citizens gaining the means to reveal their illegal and anti...