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From the Department of Really Bad Ideas: <\/strong>The House of Representatives is looking into a bill that could make \u201cdisparaging remarks on the country\u2019s historical figures a jailable offence,\u201d according to Gulf News<\/a>. Representative Omar Hamrush wants to protect us precious petals because \u201cthe controversy resulting from insulting these symbols is dangerous and negatively affects the Egyptian people by spreading depression among them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Department of Really Bad Ideas: The House of Representatives is looking into a bill that could make \u201cdisparaging remarks on the country\u2019s historical figures a jailable offence,\u201d according to Gulf News. Representative Omar Hamrush wants to protect us precious petals because \u201cthe controversy resulting from insulting these symbols is dangerous and negatively affects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-637237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"5e129c2a-6f10-4dc1-81e3-7af83d865834","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"8f6abf8e-da95-4c4c-b4c6-8be023a6aafc","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[637211],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nParliament considers bill making Insulting historic figures a crime - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/11\/12\/parliament-considers-bill-making-insulting-historic-figures-a-crime\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parliament considers bill making Insulting historic figures a crime\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the Department of Really Bad Ideas: The House of Representatives is looking into a bill that could make \u201cdisparaging remarks on the country\u2019s historical figures a jailable offence,\u201d according to Gulf News. 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