Jim LotFP said:
http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc44406/smwane/Cairo2.htm
http://www.southwestern.edu/~kotarskj/satanic1.html
http://www.mask.org.za/Archive Web Files/Updated 060601/Sections/AfricaPerCountry/egypt/
"The Mufti, Nasr Farid Wassil, said the "Satanists" were apostates from Islam but the right approach, in view of their youth, was to ask them to repent. "If they renounce their beliefs, they can be pardoned. But if they persist in their error, we should carry out the penalty prescribed by Islamic law," added the Mufti, quoted in the newspaper al-Akhbar. The penalty for apostasy is death."
Now these articles are years old, so maybe things have changed. *shrug* But his is hardly religious tolerance or freedom.
yes ,i remember those days,,i have my friends and relatives,who are accused and arrested in these events,and they were muslims just like the music of metal,and the majority were muslims!
they just like to be different,sick from the constrictions of the society .
we all get sick from the country at this moment
you can say it was so immature and serious against something does not deserve. and from newspaper,they really can make every thing,just to catch your money,so newspapers make it a story and so and so...
and after it,metal albums are prevented to reach Egypt for a while ,
yes nowadays things changed,we have Egyptian metal bands,and some of them are really cool
when i was talking about religion unconciously i was talking about Islam,Christianity and Judaism.these are the religions we know here in our countries.personally i donot look at satanism that serious,and until now i can not believe that someone may take satanism as a religion with the true meaning of the word, i can not consider something that its own puropse to insult my holy and basic values as a freedom.
we here in our country donot look at it seroiusly,and unless some newspapers say there were a few from the kids that really accused in those events you mention i can not believe they are really present,but they still very few.
about apostasy ,i will just explain a few things,but if you want more about it,you should return to trusted detailed place for it.
every country in the world,have its own laws,and anyone who do wrong,he shall get his penalty and punishment,this is in all religions,human made laws,for example if someone betray your country and post detailed critical informatons against your country ,you will punish him as regard your laws.
at the era of our prophet Muhammed(peace be upon him) some jews plan to become muslim at the begining of the day then get away from Islam,at the end of the day,as they want to say to people,we tried their religion and was bad and we didnot convinced with it,and subsequently chaos may spread between us.
and this crime (apostasy ) may be planned whether from inside or outside our countries,as the above example,(and as a lot of plans that unhonestly happen these days )as you can not see betraying your country and working with its enemies is freedom,i canot see also that betraying Islam,is a freedom.
because we from the begining we donot obligate anyone to become muslim.
if you convinced with it after you study it and know its laws,you are welcome,if you are not,you will live your quiet life and no one will obligate you.
so i canot see apostasy as a personal freedom,because the danger of the person who commit apostasy is clearly more danger than the enemy who carry a gun and threaten life.
i can see it as integrity in Islam,and there is no mistake in that.