International

The thorny issue of drawing the Garden of Eden in Egypt

Skip to comments

Alan Gardner October 23, 2013 1 minute 0 comments

Medium has posted an article on the issue of touchy political and religious issue of blasphemy in Egyptian cartooning.

Blasphemy is a punishable offense in Egypt. According to the penal code, “Any use of religion to promote or advocate extremist ideologies… with a view toward stirring up sedition, disparaging or showing contempt” toward one of the monotheistic religions might be considered profane. It’s a red line that has gotten cartoonists into trouble.