Saudi national faces prospect of execution for tweeting

From European Son.

“Insulting the Prophet [Mohammed] is considered blasphemous in Islam,” notes OnIslam.net, “which is a crime punishable by execution in Saudi Arabia.” Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year-old Saudi blogger, now faces the prospect of execution for tweeting this message on Islam’s Prophet Mohammed’s birthday:

“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.” 

Kashgari was en route to New Zealand when he was detained by Malaysian authorities at the request of Interpol because of the tweet. He was then deported to Saudi Arabia, where he was arrested for blasphemy.

Saudi clerics have declared the 23 year-old to be an apostate, and, as Charles Santiago, DAP’s MP for Klang, notes in Free Malaysia Today, “13,000 people have joined a Facebook page titled ‘The Saudi People Demand the Execution of Hamza Kashgari’.”

Regarding the deportation of Kashgari, Santiago says that… read more.

5 Replies to “Saudi national faces prospect of execution for tweeting”

  1. WTF!!!!!!! is INTERPOL doing stopping this guy at the border????!!!!!!
    I think this reporter needs to ask a few more questions here!

  2. If the Saudi’s act on their threat I say we declare war! If Muhammad was alive today I’d kill the murderous little prick!

  3. Yes WTF!!! Is Interpol now a bunch of Islamist lackeys? Tjhis guy Hamza sounds like he should be revered in the West!

  4. Interpol?
    Hmmm…
    Interpol used to be the intelligence service of the notorious Nazi Gestapo.
    Not much change here.