Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet

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."

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Re:Much of the world has "illegal speech"

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Did Mohammed make a real pilgrimage? He isn't alive today, so it's obvious he didn't make 'fast' (to be fair, neither did Jesus Christ--I have).

What's with the descendants of Ishmael and Esau getting all bent out of shape over a few words here and there? I don't see Salmon Rusdie exposing the historical biblical immolation of human babies, or the puppet party system, or the antics of the world's wealthy, or the mirror within mirror gumby system that turns females into lifelong murderers.

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