This time, the moderates at al-Azhar university want 15 year prison terms for publishers who print errors in the Koran.
Koranic typos apparently are misdemeanor crimes in Egypt, but clearly such lenient punishments aren't deterring printers from making copying mistakes.
The proposed law would also force the publishing house to close. The article didn't mention if the printing presses themselves would be subject to any punishment.
Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on Thursday proposed a new law mandating 15-year jail terms for printing and publishing houses found guilty of making copy mistakes in published versions of the Quran.
Under the proposed law, the transgression would be classified as a felony rather than a misdemeanor, while offending printing or publishing houses would be forced to close.
According to Academy Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Abdel Baqi, a committee composed of academy members, Al-Azhar scholars and legal experts would draft the proposed legislation before referring it to the Shura Council (the consultative house of Egypt's parliament) for discussion.
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/al ... int-errors
Under Islamic law, at least two witnesses must testify that a printer made a copying error before a lenient punishment of forty strikes with a baseball bat may be administered
