Dubai has a reputation of being modern and moderate, but it still enforces Sharia when it comes to matters such as women being raped (per Sharia, it’s their fault) and insulting Islam on Facebook. What is odd is that people were able to see this man’s Facebook posts at all, given the fact that Facebook itself does all it can to enforce Sharia and make sure that anything perceived as insulting Islam is censored.
“Man on trial in Dubai for insulting Islam online,” by Marie Nammour, Khaleej Times, March 6, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Indian resident has been charged with disrespecting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). He even tried to flee the country.
A man is on trial for trying to flee the UAE after allegedly insulting Islam on social media.
The 31-year-old Indian electric welder is accused of posting messages – insulting Islam and disrespecting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) – on Facebook on November 6, 2016, the Court of First Instance was told on Sunday.
Even though he deleted all the posts and details on his account shortly after, copies of the messages were obtained, translated and used as evidence by the Dubai public prosecution.
The complaint was filed on November 7 at Al Rashidiyah police station.
The accused was arrested two days later while trying to leave the country through Dubai International Airport. His mobile phone, allegedly used to post the messages, was seized.
He has been charged with disrespecting the Prophet (PBUH) online….
billybob says
Dissing the Prophet… This is his crime – like this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Muhammad
Cecilia Ellis says
Billybob, the article found at the link you provided is most informative. Indeed, I am surprised that the article itself has not been censored … for blasphemy against Muhammad. I noticed that it was last updated just twenty days ago. An excellent read! Thanks for your post!
billybob says
Hi Cecilia – I was both delighted and amazed to discover that article myself yesterday. I didn’t know of its existence before that. It is really well done, using an academic approach to make “Islamophobia” respectful, might be said. There were even a couple of paragraphs attributed to Robert Spencer Himself. You would think the Islamic world would be up in arms about it, with mobs of angry Pakistanis working themselves up into a frenzy and foaming at the mouths. Maybe they haven’t discovered it yet, or it is probably blocked in Islamic nations so as not to upset the natives.
I contribute regularly to Wikipedia’s annual fund raising. Next time that comes along, I will give a little extra with even greater enthusiasm.
Spike1033 says
They’re not up in arms because most of them can’t read.
Mike Blair says
mohammed was gay. And he ate pork rinds
Dacritic says
The article should include what happened to those unlucky souls who dared criticise Muhammad, especially those contemporaries of his.
gravenimage says
Dacritic, the article *does* include criticism of the murder of Asma bint Marwan and Abu ‘Afak–but it includes this under “modern criticism”, instead of under earliest criticism, and you you have to go to links to find out that the “Prophet” specifically had his critics assassinated–and there is no mention of the other critics he had murdered.
And there is a small section on Robert Spencer, which reads in part, “according to Robert Spencer, Muhammad said in one Sunni Hadith…”–even though it links to the Hadiths themselves, there is an implication that this is Spencer’s assertion, and may not be backed up with facts.
Still, given the whitewash we regularly see on Islam and the “Prophet”, I was glad to see that this Wikipedia article is useful and, given an admittedly somewhat cursory scan by myself, appears to be generally accurate.
gravenimage says
Thanks, billybob and Cecilia.
Dov Berrol says
And this from a city that is supposed to welcome millions of visitors to a world’s fair in 2020. Taquiyya to the world on a grand scale….look how warm and welcoming Arabs can be to the beauty in the diversity of the world’s nations. Just don’t insult a fictitious character named Mohammed or you’ll be arrested.
mortimer says
The penalty for a sane person at war (verbally) with Islam is DEATH. If they can show this young welder is ‘INSANE’, they can send him home to India.
Biff H says
If a religion’s can take away a positive, nothing can make water impure, when it’s prophet performed ablution in an open sewer containing dead dogs, menstrual rags and rotting garbage, you have to be off kilter to follow this cult. What’s left? His actions were the result of a curse, bewitched by Satanic magic and he is innocent of any wrongdoing.
Biff H says
A form of life insurance would be to employ a practitioner of magic to assemble a collection of objects (Personal effects – hair, cigarette butt, nail clippings, etc.) recognized by the powers that be as an evil totem. Place the object under something near the entrance to your home and if you are accused of anything have an investigator of witchcraft discover it and produce his findings to the authorities. The Best of Deceivers would approve and welcome you into that houri-house in the sky. Mashallah.
Joe McDonald says
It matters not the thin veneer of civility or modernity in such places as dubais, qatar or kuwait… an isLIEmic cesspool is an isLIEmic cesspool.
You can take the the oppression, intolerance & human rights abuse & export it outside of a “cult-ure” based on heretical & blasphemous isLIEmic supremacy… but you can’t clean up the toxic ignorance, bigotry & zealotry from the cesspool itself.
SM says
What a loathsome, disgusting CULT.
kessler says
The outrage against the Indian man in Dubai would probably get a lot of support over here from moderates and their liberal allies. “He should have known better than to insult Islam”
I find it interesting that so many liberals in the West accept that Islam is not able to handle criticism and happily grant censorship for this one religion.
The ability to mock, criticise and openly debate all aspect of Christianity without the risk of death is one of the main reasons why we are enjoying this open society. And yet, liberals accept that Islam is not ready for this treatment (the good old “it’s a young religion” argument) and demand that we limit our freedoms in order to accommodate Islamic blasphemy laws – they could not care less that such a move is completely at odds with the fundamental principles of our democracy.
How is Islam going to go through any form of moderation if we shut down people who speak out against the intolerance and hate promoted by this religion? In a sane society we would have this debate – it would be encouraged and never stifled by those who scream racist and resort to violence.
But sanity has given way to dhimmitude. Muslims have great success using our tolerance to accommodate their intolerance. They pretend to care a great deal about “democracy”, however, democracy is the first thing which would be annihilated if they had it their way.
Quinn says
Islam will never be moderated. I think what people don’t realize is that this is their reformation, it’s going on right now and it’s getting MORE fundamentalist! It’s all a game. The globalists are pulling all the strings. They funded the terrorists that became ISIS to revolt against Assad, they funded the Taliban to fight USSR and so on. Right now they want to cause chaos in the Middle East and they want to bring that chaos to America, via the refugees. The end game is probably to wipe out Islam altogether. Watch and wait, the next 9/11 is coming. Why you ask? Why to get American sentiment behind another war, of course! Even the libtards would consent if we had another 9/11 type event.
ronald says
Mohammed was a criminal – a predator for women, men sold on the slave market, killed almost everyone who believed not in Allah as an excuse to snatch them everything they possessed
Krazy Kafir says
Honestly. How stupid does one have to be to in order to be insulting Islam’s prophet while in a Muslim country?
gravenimage says
He may not have, Krazy Kafir–so often, Infidels are accused of “insulting the prophet” or “burning a Qur’an” just to get them into trouble.
FYI says
The Prophet(PBUH).
PBUH?
Is that…?
Persistently Bringing Unholy Horror
Perfidious Bearer of an Unholy Heritage
Prophet?Balderdash!* ..Unlikely. Hoax!
Please to Be Unmasked Henceforth
Remember that the next time you see..
The prophet muhammed(PBUH)
*you could use bollocks{UK term}I suppose …but I want to be polite…must respect Religion of Peace fanatics…..
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gravenimage says
It’s nice that you want to help people in Egypt and Jordan and Muslim East Africa, Robin, but I’m afraid this is not going to change the genocidal antisemitism of Islam.
But this is certainly a good program for Israel, and will make it more difficult for arson Jihad there.
I P Strohs says
Peas Be Upon Him, (or “six-year-old-virgin” Piss Be Upon Him) Anal Akbar, Anal Akbar, “My god can beat up your God!” Whiny little dog, He hates the Jew because they are God’s “chosen People.”
The fascination with physical pleasure shows Islam cannot get past this physical world, as if this false prophets penis is all that mattered to him. Other religeons teach to control one’s thoughts and desires. Satan would ‘allows’ he followers to rape steal murder, in HIS NAME?? SATAN?? They make this place Hell for the ignorance they perpetuate.
72 white raisins, and pair of dice. No, I think not, more like St Peter saying: “Do Over, you easily fooled Muslims, try again”
Soldier of Christ Jesus, Tip of the Spear
Angemon says
Can’t wait to see muhammad walking into court and explaining why and how the alleged posts were offensive to him… /sarc. off
Dacritic says
“Insulting Islam and/or Muhammad” means to expose the dirty details of Islam according to its own sources like the Quran, Hadith and Sira… which is basically available to anyone who cares to read and think.
And why aren’t there any leftists protesting against this?
Dum Spiro says
That accused welder is screwed — worse than this Australian woman’s Dubai nightmare:
Part 1
Part 2
Sharia justice. Wait — that’s an oxymoron…
— Spero
gravenimage says
Thanks for the links, Dum Spiro. I remember that horrific story. Good to see that Channel 7 did so much digging, and that the story got wide coverage.
The terrible thing is that Alicia Gali is actually one of the luckier ones–her story could have been even worse.
That the West continues to do business with these barbarians–and without warning their people of the danger in a Shari’ah state–is just sickening.
Singh The Sikh says
Soon to be the case in Canada if Trudeau has his way. I hate to be vulgar but Trudeau is a stupid fuck. Sorry, but no better way to describe his imbecility.
gravenimage says
Dubai: Man on trial for insulting Islam on Facebook
…………………………….
This poor man. This should surprise no one–Dubai is neither “modern” nor “moderate”.