Egypt Copt jailed for 6 years for mocking Prophet

A court in Egypt jailed an Egyptian Christian for six years on Tuesday for mocking the Prophet Mohammed and for insulting Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on social networking sites, a judicial source said. Beshoi al-Beheiry, from the province of Sohag in central Egypt, was sentenced by a criminal court to three years for defaming Islam after posting offensive cartoons of the prophet on Facebook, the source said. Beheiry, a teacher, was sentenced to an additional two years for insulting Morsi and one year for insulting the person who brought a lawsuit against him over the cartoons. The sentence comes amid tensions over a recent film produced by Christian activists in the United States that mocks Islam and that sparked Muslim protests in some 20 countries. The Daily Star