The new Egyptian criminal

On the supposition that everyone should know what it takes to get arrested for insulting Egypt’s President Morsi, denigrating Islam and disturbing the public peace, here is the January 27 broadcast with English subtitles of Bassem Youssef, who posted bail today and was released.  His Jon Stewart rip off is obvious, but I’d still recommend thinking twice before confronting this cardiac surgeon in court:

Does a country with Egypt’s problems need to worry about Bassem Youssef?  Maybe the answer to that question is “yes,”  if you are as humorless and insecure as President Morsi.

PS, April 3: As if to prove the point, today the US embassy in Cairo caught enough hell from the Egyptian government to delete a tweet referring to this Jon Stewart skit about Morsi’s reaction to Bassem Youssef’s criticism:

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