Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 12, 2012 @06:32AM from the welcome-to-most-of-history dept.

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."

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Re:Knock off the Islam-bashing by andy1307 · 2012-02-12 08:04 · Score: 1, Troll

Look, this is a problem of dictatorship, not of religion.

Bullshit. If executing a man for a tweet is unislamic, why do muslims let the keepers of the two mosques get away with an unislamic practice? Would the saudi dictators get a pass for opening a casino?