Update: Saudi Blogger With ‘Blasphemous’ Tweets Who Fled for Safety Now Arrested
- Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:24pm by
Liz Klimas
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Kashgari's tweets (Image via The Daily Beast)
Yesterday we reported about a Saudi Arabian blogger whose three tweets about Muhammed on his birthday incited outrage among Islamic conservatives, with the king calling for his arrest and some seeking his execution. Hazma Kashgari, who fled the country for his own safety saying he would never return, has since been detained in Malaysia.
The New York Times reports that Kashgari was detained by authorities at the Kuala Lampur International Airport Thursday and is likely to be returned to Saudi Arabia but officials are still determining next steps:
“The police have contacted their counterpart in Saudi Arabia to determine the next course of action,” [said Hishammuddin Hussein, the Malaysian Minister of Home Affairs.]
The 23-year-old’s tweets that began the controversy, which included a Facebook page with more than 13,000 supporters calling for his execution, were directly addressed to the prophet Muhammad and considered blasphemous to some. Here’s the text, as reported by the Daily Beast:
“On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you’ve always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you,” he wrote in one tweet.
“On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more,” he wrote in a second.
“On your birthday, I shall not bow to you. I shall not kiss your hand. Rather, I shall shake it as equals do, and smile at you as you smile at me. I shall speak to you as a friend, no more,” he concluded in a third.
With more than 30,000 responses on Twitter in one day, Kashgari quickly removed the tweets and apologized. But it was too late and he fled the country.
The Times reports that groups such as Amnesty International are asking the Malaysian officials not to send Kashgari back to his home country:
“We are calling on the Malaysian government to stop any deportation proceedings they may have started,” said Cilina Nasser, a London-based researcher with Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa program.
The Times also reports a Malaysian official as saying “It is not our practice to grant political asylum.”
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Comments (77)
OverFiend
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:54pmHe’s dead. Look out everybody dead man walking.
Report Post »VicksVaporub
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:23pmAmerica is going to be like this soon.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:46amI hope this “kid” has a miracle.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:52amWe should let him come here..
Report Post »AdamClev
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:37amHow does Ron Noble, secretary-general of Interpol and an American, justify Interpol getting involved in Malaysia and helps arrest of the Saudi blogger over tweets? This should be Freedom of Speach issue. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/02/20122105349670993.html
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:23pmWhy not start tweeting using some muslims name & their picture & say bad things about mohammed. They will start killing each other. Now thats an idea. Like maybe members of care.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 5:42pmOur CIA and other black op agencies should be doing exactly that, getting various Muslim groups to kill one another. Instead we are like total goobers getting in the middle of their fights and trying to get everyone to get along, and then both sides attack us. The West is insane, it has lost the will to survive due to being brainwashed by modern liberal multiculturalism. We sort of need to first defeat modern liberalism and then worry about defending ourself from Islam. As it stands, our guard is down and we are committing civilizational suicide bringing Islam into the West. The liberals are too clueless to even see what is happening. They not only don’t mind Islam spreading, they are preventing the rest of us from defending ourselves against Islam.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:00pm@PALEOMAN
The simplist ideas are always the most effective. Your suggestion is outstanding! You win a cookie!
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:29pm@ AB5R- “Our CIA and other black op agencies should be doing exactly that, getting various Muslim groups to kill one another.”
Report Post »***********
I thought you were a smart person, but, I guess you’re just another pretty face. If the government can get two groups it opposes, to fight or kill one another, how long will it be before that same government comes after you, or your group?
Twobyfour
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:37amSirhan, what about the sura where profit Mohammed encourages to use “all stratagems of war”?
What is good for the goose….
Anyway, it’s not necessary. Muslims seem to be doing just fine. In Syria, for instance, maybe it will spill over into Lebanon, too, and just wait when things heat up a bit in Egypt.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:59amGet them to start killing each other? They’ve been doing that since Mohamed started his crazy religion.
Report Post »Jerome from Layton
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 1:57pmI like it!
Report Post »happ77
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:12pmDead man walking.
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:12pmMore moosies killing moosies
Report Post »Buy popcorn,or maybe a BLT
flyoverbob
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:10pmMore moosies killing moosies
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:43pmThese people look for any reason they can to kill someone! They have elevated killing to the extent that it is an excepted price for just reflecting on their god! But I say they have perverted their own teaching’s! No god of continence would agree with the total hypocrisy of the Islamic religious teachings!
They treat women like s–t!
Their culture is all about how everyone else is the infidel and must have their heads cut off!
While they cheat, hate & kill innocent people every day!
Demanding every one convert or die (Love this one!)?
Then they blame it all on the Jew!
How sick is this? Over done I would say! Maybe we need to do some slap-down over their & straighten their a&&’s out?
Well here are some song’s for them and their kind about their religious beliefs and teachings called
Report Post »“That’s not right” and “what for”
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789999
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134679
AB5r
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 5:28pm“But I say they have perverted their own teaching’s! No god of continence would agree with the total hypocrisy of the Islamic religious teachings!”
Actually you are incorrect, they have not perverted Islamic teachings. And while no god of conscience would countenance such teachings, Allah, better known as Satan, most definitely does. Muhammad, the supreme example for all Muslims for all time, was a murderer, rapist, thief, and liar, just to name a few of his unsavory qualities. The teachings of Islam contain more anti-semitic hate speech than Hitler’s Mein Kampf, so that sort of gives a sense of the problem. The problems in the lands controlled by Islam are DUE TO the teachings of Islam. Islam has no place in the West, it is 100% incompatible with freedom and democracy.
One could say that Muhammad perverted the teachings of the Bible, but that isn’t what you said.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:01pmAB5R
Report Post »I understand your point and will stipulate that Islam is a perversion of the Christian faith after the fact!
They both except Jesus as a profit but Islam stops short of giving him god status. I have not wasted my time studding Islam because any group or organization can claim what ever they want to but their actions tell me who they are. as I have noted above they have some real humanitarian problems that tell me this is wrong! Thats all I need to reject them!
any way here are two other songs for them!
“The End Times” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10381143
“The Devils Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789987
AB5r
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:42pmThe best thing for Muslims worldwide would be to keep America and the West totally free of Islam. That way there will always be at least a few places where people can escape from if they choose to leave Islam or criticize it, etc. Once the liberal West allows Islam to spread everywhere including even in America, the fruits of their insane action will be the elimination of any place on earth for people to escape if they want to leave Islam and remain alive.
Report Post »LogicalMetaphysician
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:38pmI Satan Love All Muslims (ISLAM)
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:46pmNot to smart traveling to another muslim country, dummy! Yer gonna end up in chop square!
CAIR = Constantly Advancing Islamic Regime
Report Post »kimberlyjesus
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:38pmWe all have the freedom on speech here in the US but no so in other countries for now. But not for long. We shall serve only one KING that is JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. GOD WILL MAKE THAT KNOWN VERY SOON. HE WILL BURN ALL THOSE FALSE RELIGIONS VERY SOON. WE WILL SEE FIRE FROM HEAVEN. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT ALL THOSE PEOPLE WILL DO THEN. THERE FALSE gods will be no more.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:35pmWhy the hell would he flee to Malaysia? That’s just a tropical D00shbagistan…..
Report Post »Jerome from Layton
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 2:05pmThat was my thought, too. BUT, it may have been the only place he could get to on short notice which is certainly his case. BTW, Indonesia is the largest Islamic country in the world. Also, the Internet is the closest thing to eternity, so when I hit the button, it will go on for a very long time…..
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:34pmWhy haven’t we started a grass roots uprising in Saudi Arabia yet?? Let’s get on with it so that we can bring on more peace and BROTHERHOOD. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:23pmWe really just need to flood all of the Muslim websites with the same message that this man expressed. Let them get as angry with us as they do with him. In their constant state of anger, filled with hate, I can’t imagine any of them finding a moments rest. Eventually they’ll wear themselves down into a state of stupor.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:12pmWow! That sucks… I wonder how long he’ll live?
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:18pmSoyanara
Report Post »shirtsbyeric
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:58pmOnce they overpopulate the USA, we will have to follow the same rules. Complain and off with you head.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:08pmSame thing goes on in Europe. The only difference is that in Europe politically incorrect speech is punishable with prison time, not death.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:20pmGive Europe (western part) time. Once sharia is instituted…
Eastern Europeans still have Islamic raids etched in their genetic memory. They aren’t keen to see Islam back in their backyard. Jan Sobieski lives.
Report Post »Ridd1ck
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:57pmSuch a peaceful and loving religion. Atheists are lucky Christians don’t act this way. They’ll get their turn soon enough though when these zealots take over.
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:17pmPROBLEM IS Atheists act this way towards Christians and would do so even more so if given the right to, liberty or justification for doing so
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:17pmDunno. Haven’t seen any atheists demanding death for Christians. If you find one, pls let me know.
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 5:09pmISLAM: The religion of Peace.
(The peace of the grave, that is!)
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:47pmWho cares where he ends up…..someone will end up “honor killing him”……Religion of “peace and tolerance”? Give me a break!!!!
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:46pmStupid is as stupid does. So he “blasphemes” Islam and runs to a muslim country with an extradition treaty with the country he’s running from. I do feel sorry for him and hope all you caliphate ignorers see what awaits us if we all don’t stand up against radical Islam soon, very, very soon.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:00pmAgreed, he is dead, pure and simple. This is the future here in America when Obama allows Sharia to be implemented fully.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:45pm.
Dude, I told you “Run Hazma Run” they gonna put the Jihad on your ass. I ment to run somewhere safe, not another Muslim Country, C‘mon man you kill’in me over here……
Well it’s been nice knowing you Hazma…………
Report Post »barbhubley
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:45pmWhy would he run to another radically islamic country? Don’t they teach critical thinking in Islamville? Oh I forgot, you cannot be islamic and think critically. They cancel each other out.
This young man is not too bright if you ask me. We still need to pray for him though.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:43pmIslam is a Religion they claim. Really, I mean, REALLY? I don’t think so. Islam is an idealogy and a scary one at that!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:41pmBad news for the Saudi blogger,you’ll be losing your head soon.
Report Post »T-2
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:38pmThis is what democracy look like.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:35pmThere is no laughter in Islam. Only death.
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:19pmOr love …. love and laughter depend upon truth being resident in a person’s soul.
Report Post »When you heart is full of lies and deceptions then nothing of virtue resides in your personality.
Laughter become offensive under adversity to those who are unable to cope with the freedom, privacy and property of others.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:29pmTomorrow’s headline: “Human Body Parts Mysteriously Appear On City Streets”
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:24pmSaudis don’t do that. They made the disposal a spectacle for masses, with white tarp and an executioner brandishing shiny sword and the resulting pool of red liquid. Masses won’t be deprived from it, they want to be entertained.
Report Post »maxedout
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:29pmIf he’s sent back, he’s dead.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:39pmHe’ll be made to be an example of Sharia law. We should all pay attention.
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