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Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia
New submitter cosmicaug writes with an update to yesterday's report that journalist Hamza Kashgari had been arrested by Malaysian police acting on a request conveyed from the Saudi government via Interpol. Now, says the BBC, "Police confirmed to the BBC that Hamza Kashgari was sent back to Saudi Arabia on Sunday despite protests from human rights groups. Mr Kashgari's controversial tweet last week sparked more than 30,000 responses and several death threats. Insulting the prophet is considered blasphemous in Islam and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Mr Kashgari, 23, fled Saudi Arabia last week and was detained upon his arrival in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday." Writes cosmicaug: "Sadly, the most likely outcome is that they are going to execute this man for three tweets."
Islam is the Religion of Peace! George Bush and Barack Obama both said so!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Yeah, it can't be by fracking or nuclear power. No, we have to rely on green energy.
Let's bankrupt ourselves like Spain on the green energy=jobs wild goose chase.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
Riiiight, and hey, while we're at it we can just do a final solution on the poor and most of the city dwellers right? I hate to break the news to ya sparky but we simply haven't developed a technology to replace gas yet and we have too many environmental groups to ever let us develop the oil oil in the gulf, which FYI will probably end up being developed by the Russians who'll then sell that oil to the highest bidder, most likely China.
The electric cars are a joke, you are talking $15,000 average price for the battery pack and it will last MAYBE 7 year under ideal conditions, and freezing cold snaps like we are having now or a normal southern summer will cut that time probably by a good third, most of the southern rural areas, you know, those places where the city folk get the FOOD from? yeah those, well i hate to be the bearer of bad news but a good chunk of it has no rail or public transport of ANY kind so you are looking at several trillion to develop an electric rail and mass transit system. Oh and good luck getting the money for that since more than 90% of the republicans in congress have signed Grover Norquist's "No new taxes on teh rich EVAR!" pledge and will never renege on that for fear of the "read my lips" effect, and finally you are in the middle of a recession (I'd personally argue its a depression and the government safety nets are simply masking the worst effects) and you have more than 15% of the population at or below the poverty level so good luck getting them the money to sell that used gas hog that's paid for for a brand new green car. of course without a vehicle you can watch unemployment soar, again especially among the rural states since it will be cheaper to sit on welfare than it will be to work and without gas they simply won't have a way to look for a job, or go to a job if they found one.
So we really only have THREE choices friend, choose one. 1.-We drill locally and develop our own resources while working on new tech, perhaps with bounties for fuel efficiency breakthroughs, 2.-We tax the rich and uberrich at 75%+ rates so we will have the funds to develop the massive amount of mass transit we will require and to basically give the poor cheap affordable green electric cars, or 3.- We give these crazy jihadists our money. which shall it be? You can't just raise gas taxes to $6 a gallon and magically get everyone to ride the buses that don't exist in many state ya know. Hell go to a state like AR or MS sometime, in AR there is the CAT bus line which covers less than 1/6th of the capital city and that's it, that's all. hell most towns don't even have taxis so if you don't have a car i hope you can walk that 30 miles to the store!
As for TFA the dumbass deserves to die for being an absolute total idiot. You are in a crazy jihad country so you tweet something nasty about their God, when these people will kill you for drawing a fricking cartoon, and then what do you do? to get away you go to ANOTHER crazy jihad country! Wow, that's really fricking smart, much better to run to an Islamist state than say Canada or the UK or pretty much anyplace that doesn't kill you for saying Muhammad sucks huh?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.