(Telegraph-UK) Nick Meo and Colin Freeman - Sheikh Khalid Abdullah, the rabble-rousing Egyptian tele-Islamist, knew he had found a ratings-grabber when he found an obscure film on the Internet called the "Innocence of Muslims." It had been online since July, but nobody had paid attention until Abdullah's show broadcast clips, and called for the film-makers to be executed. Within hours the hardline Salafi Islamists who watch his program were demonstrating. As part of the Arab Spring, anti-Western Islamists who were viciously suppressed by dictators like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak are now exercising their freedom of speech.
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