BANGLADESH, Dec. 3 -- Article 65 of Egypt's constitution guarantees freedom of thought and expression. Article 64 guarantees the absolute freedom to worship, to build places of worship and practice religious beliefs for all monotheistic religions.
In practice, however, these rights do not protect people from the country's controversial blasphemy law.
The law has been wielded for decades by Islamists against thinkers, actors and writers. The latest victim is an Egyptian physician, writer, and television host, Khaled Montaser, who is known for his reformist, secularist, anti-extremist, and anti-Islamist views. He gained fame exposing the religious and scientific fallacies of old Islamic interpretations propagated by Islamists.
A lawsuit fi...