Dad, say it 'aint so

The FreeKareem website is reporting that the family of Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, the Egyptian blogger accused of "contempt of religion" and various crimes against the Egyptian state, has disowned him.

Abdul Kareem's father, a retired math teacher, reportedly said he thinks his son should be punished according to Sharia (Islamic law) - that is, if his son does not repent for having repudiated Islam within a period of three days, he should be put to death.

An Egyptian newspaper says that Abdul Kareem's father described his son as a "monkey" who "has imitated the athiests of the West in their intellectual thinking."