‘Askar said this draft should be in the fashion of the anti-Semitism law and later on it will be turned into an international law.

The issue was raised during a debate on a question by MP Mahmūd ‘Abd al-Murdī on Saudi writer Hamzah al-Kāsihrī’s insults against the Prophet Muhammad on his facebook page, which ‘Abd al-Murdī termed as “flagrant apostasy”.

Kāsihrī had written that he would not accept the prophet’s sayings and will view him as if they were on par. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Feb. 27, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic