Article from Fox News by Kathleen Joyce.
Sherine Abdel-Wahab, one of Egypt’s most famous singers and the star of the Arabic version of “The Voice,” was sentenced to six months in prison after making a joke suggesting the Nile River was polluted.
A lawsuit was filed against Abdel-Wahab in November after a video captured a fan asking the singer to sing one of her popular songs, “Mashrebtesh Men Nilha,” which translates to “Have You Drunk From The Nile?”
Abdel-Wahab told the fan “drinking from the Nile will get me schistosomiasis,” referring to the common disease in Egypt that’s caused by flatworms living in freshwater.
Abdel-Wahab joked to “drink Evian instead.”
Read the entire article at Fox News.
Image Credit: By Dak15 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
wpDiscuz
It seems that Free Speech is only for the liberals. Ie who else can tell Jared Kushner he should wear Kevlar on his back & get away with it. While our school kids get thrown in jail and rightly so. Why should an adult get away with a threat like that. The rules are definently null & void if your a liberal. No wonder our kids think that behavior is ok.