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Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet

Posted by timothy on from the religious-practice-makes-perfect-slavery dept.

New submitter StarWreck writes "Police in Kuala Lumpur detained Hamza Kashgari, 23, 'following a request made to us by Interpol' on behalf of the Saudi authorities. Kashgari, a newspaper columnist, fled Saudi Arabia after posting a tweet which read: 'I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don't understand about you I will not pray for you.' Said tweet sparked outrage in Saudi Arabia and resulted in multiple death threats. Kashgari faces the death penalty in Saudi Arabia."

4 of 915 comments (clear)

  1. Re:and where is exactly the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, what's important to understand is that the Muslim religion is a plague on the world no matter what their own justification of barbarism is.

  2. Re:and where is exactly the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So your favorite thing about religion is a piece of fiction meant to trash religion...

    Are you fucking stupid?

  3. Re:Moronic equivalence argument by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In my experience you're wrong. Talk to a Christian or Buddhist monk, and discuss science. You'll find them making good well thought out points (certainly beating the average person in the street by an order of magnitude).

    Now do the same with an imam. It won't take long for a screaming match or open threats to surface.

  4. Re:Problem here is "racism" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They're all null pointers.