Yes, they were charged with “terrorism” for criticizing Islam. Remember this the next time you hear that cynical and disingenuous Hamas-linked Muslim groups in the U.S. have condemned terrorism.
Meanwhile, this is a glimpse into the future of the U.S. This can’t happen here, you say? We respect the freedom of speech, you say? Maybe that was true at one time, but it is no longer. Cowardice is pandemic. Newspapers all over the country refused to republish the notorious Muhammad cartoons out of a newfound “respect” for Islam that they never showed for negative portrayals of Christianity, which they hailed as “courageous.” Those who call attention to the ideological roots of jihad violence are excoriated as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes,” and most organizations on both the Left and the Right would never dare feature such people as speakers. Any organization that does is immediately denounced and called upon to apologize, and it usually does. So given that this is the climate today, what do you think the situation will be like in ten or twenty years?
“Mauritania: seven people charged with insults to Islam,” translated from “Mauritanie : inculpation de sept personnes pour insultes à l’Islam,” APA News, February 28, 2020:
A Mauritanian judge has charged seven people with “contempt for the Muslim religion” and “terrorism”, APA learned from judicial sources on Friday in Nouakchott.
Arrested in mid-February, the defendants were sent in prison pending the scheduling of their trial, for which no date has been set, the same source said.
The persons in question had participated in Nouakchott in a meeting of an unauthorized association advocating for the refoundation of Mauritania. This association is suspected of promoting secularism in the country and some of its members are even accused of preaching Christianity.
In the same context, the Mauritanian justice system launched arrest warrants against three people living abroad. Recently, audio recordings of conversations between some of the accused have spread widely on social media, causing deep outrage among the population.
These recordings mock the precepts of Islam and contain insulting language about religion. The defendants are being prosecuted in accordance with article 306, which concerns cybercrime in the Mauritanian code of criminal procedure.