Egypt bans YouTube for a month for denigrating Prophet Muhammad over a video

Egypt’s top administrative court ordered yesterday to block YouTube streaming website for one month over hosting a video that denigrates Prophet Muhammad of Islam, the Egyptian lawyer who filed the lawsuit said. “The ruling is final, unappealable and enforceable,” Xinhua quoted lawyer Mohamed Hamed Salem as saying. A lower administrative court has previously ordered the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to do so, but the latter appealed against the ruling, citing it was hard to implement. The top administrative court rejected the NTRA appeal on Saturday and upheld the temporary ban as a final, unappealable ruling. The lawsuit dates back to 2013 when the Egyptian lawyer demanded to ban YouTube in Egypt until the offensive clip on Prophet Muhammad(PUBH) and other anti-Islamic videos are removed. “The ruling is a punishment for YouTube website that will cost it massive economic losses,” Salem said. The controversial video first appeared on YouTube in 2012, raising a wave of anti-American outrage in the Muslim world.