Malaysia defends sending Twitter "blasphemer" to almost certain death in Saudi Arabia

While not overlooking the scandal that Interpol was used and let itself be used to apprehend Hamza Kashgari, the wording of the Malaysian explanation is curious: "I will not allow Malaysia to be seen as a safe country for terrorists and those who are wanted by their countries of origin, and also be seen as a transit county" (emphasis added).

"Malaysia defends deporting Saudi journalist for tweet," from BBC News, February 14 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The Malaysian government has defended its deportation of a Saudi journalist accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a tweet

Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said the deportation to Saudi Arabia was legal and that Malaysia cannot be seen as a safe haven.

Hamza Kashgari, 23, was sent back to Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

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 can be punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.

He has since removed the tweet and apologised for his comments.

Mr Kashgari fled Saudi Arabia and was detained when he arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.

His lawyers claimed to have obtained a court injunction to keep him in Malaysia. But the government deported him, saying that they did not receive any court order.

"I will not allow Malaysia to be seen as a safe country for terrorists and those who are wanted by their countries of origin, and also be seen as a transit county,'' Mr Hussein was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.

According to the BBC's Jennifer Pak, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia do not have a formal extradition treaty. This is the reason why human rights activists say that Malaysia has violated international human rights.

Amnesty International has said that Mr Kashgari is a "prisoner of conscience".

"If he (Kashgari) faces execution back in Saudi Arabia, the Malaysian government will have blood on its hands," said Phil Robertson, Asia deputy director of Human Rights Watch.
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malaysia will not be a safe haven for terrorists!!

since when insulting a pedophile is considered an act of terrorim?
M

I can see the logic.
Writing something derogatory about allah and mohammed makes one a terrorist.
Killing people with bombs strapped on oneself makes one a martyr.

This though is islamic logic not rational thought.

Malaysia defends sending Twitter "blasphemer" to almost certain death in Saudi Arabia
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"I will not allow Malaysia to be seen as a safe country for terrorists and those who are wanted by their countries of origin, and also be seen as a transit county"
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*Terrorists*—that is what Muslims consider a writer of conscience who criticizes a warlord—but *actual* Jihad terrorists are just fine...

More:

Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said the deportation to Saudi Arabia was legal and that Malaysia cannot be seen as a safe haven.
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"Allah" forbid that any Muslim nation be seen as a "safe haven"—do these vicious Muslims even realize how they sound to the civilized world?

Does anyone else see the uncomfortable irony that Fox News Channel ("Fair & Balanced"??) has had a complete news black-out on this story? Possibly it has something to do with Fox's largest non Rupert Murdock stock holder as Diana West puts so well:

"You don't suppose the fact that Saudi dictatorship-family-member Talal bin Alwaleed owns the largest non-Murdoch stake in Fox News (7 percent) and a new stake in Twitter (almost 4 percent) has anything to do with that, do you?"

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2029/-Prince-Talals-Fox-News-AWOL-on-Prince-Talals-Twitter-Story.aspx

if this is true it is really sinister.
M

Must be one of those Twitter terrorists we hear so much about.

Muslims around the world know that a Muslim seeking sanctuary must flee Dar-Es-Islam for Dar-Es-Harb.

I wonder how old Suhail feels about this. Bet this happens under Jewish and Canon Law all the time.

Muslims, the world has read your books and history. Your prophet's filthy reputation is all over the net. The "Giant" is fatally wounded. He CAN NOT recover.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

Wow, didn't know I was a terrorist.

This is typical Muslim equivocation. They have to believe that they are the victims - but the facts stand in their way. So, they become "victims of terror" when presented with cartoons or tweets, and flying a plane into the Twin Towers is rather less an offence than burning a Qur'an.

We have seen in Egypt too how Christian clergy can be charged with incitement when brutally attacked by the Muslim army. That way the army can be victims of a crime.

Be careful the next time you tweet, infidel.

I'm glad that Malaysia is doing its part in the "War On Terror", and that Humpty Dumpty is alive and well and living in Malaysia.

Malaysia is Saudi Arabia's Muslim colony and it will do anything please their masters in Saudi Arabia!!

Islam: no conscience, no shame, no restraint

I'm waiting for just one of these "moderate Western Muslims" we hear about to call for Hamza Kashgari's life to be spared. After all they are not shy about calling for special privileges in the West are they. They keep saying that the death sentence for blasphemy and apostasy is not part of Sharia to the Western media - so why can't one of them say the same to the Saudis?

This reminds me of Karen Armstrong's book I was reading a while ago. She was discussing (defending, actually) the famous Medina murders of the old poets who were criticizing Mohammed. She explained it as "seemingly brutal by our contemporary standards", but we have to understand that for Muslims anyone not a part of the ummah or a "protected" tribe, was - as she put it - "fair game", and killing such a person was a "small matter" to Muslims IN THOSE DAYS.

Thank god we no longer live in "those days".

As disturbing as the story itself are the two following facts:

1. Hilary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has remained silent on this. As has, of course, B. Hussein Obama. And why should we expect either of them to pipe up and lend America's moral authority when they have been working so hard with the OIC to find ways to criminalize any discussion of Islam? (And of course Obama feels we have no moral authority, especially not in the face of Islam).

2. A FACEBOOK page was immediately in response to Kashgari's tweets, and it called for his murder. If this FACEBOOK page still exists, where the f--- is Zuckerberg? Any Facebook page that Muslims don't like, such as ones calling attention to honor killings of Muslim girls by their families, is taken down immediately as "hate speech," or "inciting hatred." But what really now, what could be more lethal than a page that explicitly calls for the murder of someone. Why doesn't Zuckerberg fix his system, so that pages of this kind cannot exist for even one hour?

These two facts are as disturbing as the story itself:

1. Hilary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has remained silent on this (certainly she has made no public protest). Same for our fearless leader, Hussein Obama. And why should we expect them to pipe up and use America's moral authority to defend this young man's life and defend the ideal of free speech, when they have been working so hard with the OIC to find ways to curb our free speech, indeed to criminalize all discussion of Islam? (And of course let's not forget that Obama feels we have no moral authority, to begin with, especially not in the face of Islam).

2. A FACEBOOK page calling for Kashgari's murder was immediately created in response to Kashgari's tweets. If this FACEBOOK page still exists, where the f--- is Zuckerberg? Any Facebook page that Muslims don't like, such as those deploring honor killings of Muslim girls by their families, is taken down immediately as "hate speech," or "speech inciting hatred." But what could be more lethal than a page that explicitly calls for someone's murder? Why doesn't Mr. Zuckerberg fix his system, so that pages that call for murder cannot exist for even ten minutes?

Sharia law claims worldwide jurisdiction, and it is uniting the "Muslim world." That is the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood's global jihad. It is sad that many, many nations have succumbed. We need to make the U.S. and other Western nations Sharia-free, warding off the seditious enforcement, official or unofficial, of Sharia law.

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