Morocco: Woman gets 3 1/2 years prison, $6,000 fine for ‘publicly insulting Islam’

A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than most people realize. Supporters of the President are defamed and smeared now, but for years, critics of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others have been routinely excoriated, vilified, demonized, deplatformed, and shunned by all decent people. What is the next step? This. Remember: Biden has pledged to combat “hate speech,” which is any speech that those in power dislike, and a member of his transition team wants to outlaw desecration of the Qur’an. As the movement for criminalization grows, so will violence directed at transgressors. We are far closer to this than most people think.

“Moroccan Court Convicts Woman for ‘Publicly Insulting Islam,’” by Shaquile Goff, Morocco World News, June 30, 2021 (thanks to Rachid):

Denver – A Moroccan judge has sentenced a 23-year-old Moroccan-Italian woman who “insulted Islam” to three and a half years in prison and the payment of a fine of nearly $6,000, according to an official announcement by the Ministry of Justice.

The unnamed woman was arrested at Casablanca airport immediately after returning from Marseille, France, where she was studying law. The arrest was linked to a 2019 Facebook post in which the woman rewrote quranic verses in a parodic praise of the consumption of alcohol.

According to statements from the woman’s father, who requested both he and his daughter remain anonymous, his daughter “did not know” she was the target of an arrest warrant for her Facebook posts. The man also defended his daughter by expressing that she “is not fluent in Arabic” and was unaware of the nature of the content she shared on social media.

After paying his daughter a visit in prison, the woman’s father described her as having been “broken” by her lengthy and harsh sentence. He also stated that the court’s sentence “ruined” his daughter’s future.

Sources familiar with the case reported that the investigation originated from a religious association in Marrakech, which formally submitted a complaint to Moroccan legal authorities prior to the girl’s return to Morocco.

Under Moroccan Penal Code 267(5), anyone “who offends the Islamic religion or the monarchy, or incites territorial integrity” is liable to face stiff fines and prison time. Moroccan law enforcement have arrested several people over the past year for perceived slights against Islam, mainly via social media posts….