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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."

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  1. Re:Problem here is "racism" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Cutting out this means flat out declaring the central figure of islam to be an inhuman moronic, cruel paedophilic bastard. Of course, that's exactly what he was.

    Until we face this reality, and force muslims to accept people saying this everywhere on this world, this won't end.

    Holy shit... well that would be great and all, but good luck with that. I think it's even less likely than getting a zealous southern baptist to admit that the invisible wizard doesn't actually exist (and certainly doesn't decide the outcome of football games).

    People sure are wacky animals sometimes.