Egyptian court orders huge sentences to Al-Jazeera employees and Morsi

Cairo -- If the United States enacted punishment for treason like they do in Egypt, a couple of liberal heads would be rolling down the river--use your imagination. Six Egyptians, two of whom are Al Jazeera employees, were sentenced to death for allegedly passing classified documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during Mohammed Morsi's Islamist presidency.

Morsi, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist, is the top defendant in the case and he was given 40 years along with his secretary, Amin el-Sirafy. 

Two of Morsi's aides were sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Sirafy's daughter, the delightful Karima, was sentenced to 15 years in the slammer.

Morsi was booted out of power by a military coup in July 2013. He has been sentenced to death in another case. That sentence and two more (life and 20 years in prison) are under appeal.

The Al-Jazeera employees, Alaa Omar Mohammed and Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal, were sentenced in absentia as was Asmaa al-Khateib, who worked for Rasd, a media network with probable links to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that enjoys a warm relationship with President Barack Hussein Obama of the United States.

The Brotherhood was banned and declared a terrorist organization after Morsi was ousted. They are not banned in the United States and have made frequent White House visits to meet with the Obama administration.

Three other defendants were also sentenced to death: Ahmed Afify, a documentary producers, an EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany, and Ahmed Ismail, an academic scholar who wasn't smart enough to not get caught.

Cairo maintains that Al-Jazeera's news coverage of Egypt and in the Middle East is biased in favor of jihadist groups.

 The American president also has an apparent bias toward Islamic terrorists as he prohibits his administration and law enforcement agencies to use words that actually define and describe who America's enemies are. 

They, on the other hand, make it very clear why they're killing infidels.


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