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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:Much of the world has "illegal speech" by airdweller · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can't decide whether you're trolling or just plain stupid. I'll go with trolling. Good job!

  2. Re:Much of the world has "illegal speech" by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know where are you going with that "Incorrect Picture" thing.

    He's just a confused right wing nut. He thinks it was lefties that wanted the death of people making cartoons depicting Allah.

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

    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.

    Before declaring the Muslim religion as a plague, can we declaring the US as being the world biggest plague ever ? The US is far worse because it pretends to be a democratic republic but in reality it is not. They are just as totalitarian as Iran, NK or a shit hole like Saudia Arabia. The only difference is that the mafia media industry is far better at bamboozling the citizens.

  4. Re:Problem here is "racism" by OldManFromTosa · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why is this moded up so high? This is just an unsubstantiated statement.