Egypt bans two French newspapers

Egypt has banned two foreign newspapers. It removed from sale the September 19 issue of the French paper Le Figaro and the September 16 issue of Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung because both carried articles the government deemed to be insulting to Islam. In its decree, the Egyptian information ministry said that the papers "published articles which disparaged Islam and claimed that the Islamic religion was spread by the sword and that the Prophet was the prophet of evil." As I reported last week, Tunisia also confiscated Le Figaro. (Via International Herald Tribune)