In the enlightened West, people aren’t arrested or jailed for criticizing Muhammad. They’re just excoriated as racist, bigoted Islamophobes, and shunned by all decent people, and concerted efforts are made to deny them access to all means of communication. Everyone the world over agrees that Muhammad, alone of all human beings, must never be criticized.
“Dubai man jailed for insulting Islam on Facebook loses appeal,” by Marie Nammour, Khaleej Times, September 12, 2017:
An electricity welder, sentenced to one year in jail on the charge of insulting Islam on social media, has lost his appeal in court.
The Court of First Instance convicted the 31-year-old Indian worker in May of disrespecting and insulting Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) in posts he shared on Facebook.
Even though he deleted all the posts and details on his account, shortly later, copies of the messages were obtained and used as evidence by the public prosecution in the case against him.
The primary court then sentenced him to one year in prison and ordered him to pay a Dh500,000 fine – to be deported afterwards. He filed an appeal as he denied the charges on the grounds his account had been hacked but he lost the appeal after the court upheld the earlier ruling.
Public prosecution records show the defendant tried to flee the UAE shortly after posting the messages….
gary says
Islam doesn’t need any help. It’s insulting enough on it’s own:
Koran 2:191 “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”
Koran 3:21 “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends”
Koran 5:33 “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
Koran 8:12 “Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran”
Koran 8:60 ” Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels”
Koran 8:65 “The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them”
Koran 9:5 “When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them”
Koran 9:123 “Make war on the infidels living in your neighbourhood”
Koran 22:19 “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies”
Koran 47:4 “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them”.
Japetto Donatelli says
Can you imagine what would happen if we created a religion that used the same kind of verses against leftist politicians and muslims? Holy cripes, we’d be arrested before the weekend! We’d be charged with making terroristic threats and a dozen other trumped up charges. But it’s not the same for muslims, we’re supposed to show unbounded tolerance despite the fact there’s an epidemic of violence by muslims for those religious teachings. We’re not supposed to care about the raping of our women and kids, terrorism, the creepy enclaves, the erosion of our civil rights, hell, we can’t even talk about it without getting blasted as racist bigot islamophobes. It’s becoming a crime and a racial offense to be proud of ones country, to defend human rights, and to criticize islam’s violent, fascist ideas. And this is very maddening to decent folk, because the bigotry and violence of islam manifests in our lives a hundred different ways. Who’s going to get raped by a horny muslim today? who’s going to get murdered for allah? who’s going to get acid in the face for dating a Christian? who’s going to get jailed or fined for telling an inconvenient fact about islam? who’s going to be sexually mutilated like a slave getting prepped for a life time of male servitude? who’s going to be driven from their home for a muslim migrant that openly admits their contempt for our culture and laws?
The koranic verses posted above are their own best testimony as to why muslims are waging jihad against us in all its ugly forms. Their “holy” scriptures teach bigotry and hate, and their deeds and actions are the material manifestation of those bad teachings. That’s why islam is an evil influence that needs to be eradicated. It’s a detriment to our peace and freedoms, and a real-world threat to the future prosperity of all mankind.
gary says
Yeah. Sadly, the new “Hate Crime” narrative somehow overlooks the content of Islam.
Instead, Conservatives are labelled as being “Hateful” – “Insulting” – “Islamophobic” ect..ect..ect…
However; in the end, Islam will not escape it’s judgment.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice to the innocent.” (Isaiah 5: 20-23)
Ned Kelly says
Im constantly banned on FB from posting after complaints from some cult, 3x in the last 10 days, even tho I see far worse things written by others. FREEDOM OF SPEECH is GONE.
Anne Smith says
These references should be emailed to Sarah Whitehouse QC who seems to think that some of Islam’s teaching is OK but the hate preacher she is currently prosecuting used the “wrong” verses.
Native jo says
You speak the truth
mortimer says
The NEW MISSION OF FACEBOOK: to help blasphemers to get arrested and decapitated.
M says
lol
Anil Kumar says
The headline is misleading. This is NOT a ” Dubai ” man who got punished. This is someone from Bharat (India) and more likely a Hindu who have been falsely accused of insulting pedophile mohammed. How come his identity & faith have not been revealed?
Jack Diamond says
Of course no one says exactly what this man said that so insulted Islam. How he insulted a DEAD MAN
so disrespectfully he should spent a year in prison for it.
You just have to take their word that it was something really really bad. No, the writer can’t repeat it, then Marie Nammour would be herself in trouble. Of course, they can’t repeat it in court, then the lawyers would be in trouble. So, for a Facebook post he gets to go to prison where he may never come out alive (he’s now a “blasphemer”), going to prison in Dubai, like the rape victims jailed for admitting to to fornication by crying rape.
Welcome to Dubai, playground of the rich and famous. Playground of jihad terrorists. Ground zero for narcoterrorism. Take no notice of the slave labor on your way to the golf tournament, or the poor soul being led away by the thought police for somehow offending the Muslims (or just been accused of it by someone out to get him). Kind of like Pakistan without the mountain views.
Ciudadano says
Freedom to criticize any religion or ideology was painfully conquered the western civilization. It is the essence of freedom of conscience and freedom of speech we still enjoy in western countries.
Totalitarian systems, like comunism and facism, always try to supress criticism and discidence. The fact that criticism of Islam is penalized in many muslim countries just shows that Islam is a totalitarian system. If western civilization still stands for human rights and liberty then it has to fight islamic totalitarism, otherwise Islamic totalitarism will slowly erode western freedoms.
Western companies should know better. They should stand for western human rights even when operating in countries that don’t respect human rights. Sadly greed always trumps over human rights and freedom when it comes to global companies.
Comunism would’ve conquered the world if wester countries had been as weak and “tolerant” as they are with Islam today.
WPM says
Every Western and Eastern nonislamic {like this man from India }should leave Dog patch Arabia ,leave the Den of the devil .Let The men in long following white robes do the every day work of picking up garbage ,building useless high rise hotels. The extra money paid is not worth backing a Nazi lead machine paying to spread hate and death to Western and Eastern people who want peace and a future for their children and grand children. Let Them do their own work there is work in India, Americas, Asia that does not require kissing the ugly butt of “Mo-de-ham-dead” and his magic stones. Face butt can lick my magic American backside.
Daniel Triplett says
America is alone with its Freedom of Speech.
I can’t think of another country on the planet that doesn’t have Hate Speech laws.
The Lefties would like such Hate Speech laws codified in America too. If that happens, the Free World is finished.
davej says
How has Islam accomplished the trick of turning any criticism, denunciation or rejection of one of the most evil and savage men to have ever lived into a crime or a “phobia”? A 7th Century barbarian somehow becomes immune from disapproval in the 21st Century?
The answer is violence, the threat of violence and deceit on a massive scale, aided and abetted by the complacence and “progressive” virtue seeking that now plagues our societies.
The Cult of Islam has nearly succeeded in turning morality upside down and will be victorious unless we wake up to reality very soon.
Steve's nephew says
The Islamists are quite skilled at psychology: They immediately transform themselves from accessories to the crime, to victims. Here is my thought process: when terrorism happens, Muslims can either criticize the behavior of the terrorists, or they can criticize anyone who complains about it. Of course they never criticize the terrorists. Thus they approve of it. OK, if the Muslims approve of terrorism, then they SHOULD be criticized. Actually the mosques should be shut down because that is where they learn to hate non-Muslims and plan their attacks on us.
Anne Smith says
Steve’s nephew has got them down to a T. In UK where most of them live on welfare they are not constrained by having to turn up to work everyday and are ready to riot at the drop of a hat.
Any perceived insult, any disrespect shown to Islam results in them pouring onto the streets to rampage in howling fury and manufactured indignation. The police long ago folded in face of this well organised routine and shoo away anyone who might have “provoked” the Muslims, in the name of keeping the peace. No-one waits to see if the Muslims will be arrested, if they were more howling brothers would take to the streets so the Police just try to see that they do not suffer any “provocation”. Then the Police feel they have done their job of “keeping the peace”.
Lydia says
I will fill in for him and insult islam in his stead.
Mohammed was NOT a prophet of God,
and NO peace upon him.
Jesus is THE prophet of God who opened up the only way to be saved.
John Forbes says
Best warn all to stay off FACEBOOK ! Looks as though they are now the FREE SPEECH jihadists & it pays to remember what MERKEL said to Zukerman – HOW CAN YOU STOP CRITICISM OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA ??? ZUKERMAN S; ANSWER – WE ARE WORKING ON IT !!!
DO NOT FORGET THIS !!!!!!
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS WHERE THIS MAY GO & MAYBE IT ALREADY HAS ! SPYING & SHUTTING DOWN FREE SPEECH !!
FYI says
How convenient is this nebulous “insult to islam” game.That can be anything you want it to be.
[It reminds me of the soviets with their “counter-revolutionary” trick:absolutely anyone could be fraudulently set up as an enemy of the state,suffer a show trial,be shot… but then subsequently rehabilitated as a hero of the Soviet Union.A neat trick and an ideal way to get rid of those who oppose you.There are a lot of similarities between islamic supremacist ideology and atheistic soviet bolshevism- at least in the way they operate:maybe that’s why the left are so friendly with the islamists}
Possible insults to islam..?
Spelling islam backwards.. malsi
Drawing a cartoon of mo ..with his brother mo… and his other brother mo.
Drawing a star of David in the koran and writing in Hebrew “God Bless Israel”
Correcting allah’s numerous and silly theology mistakes.Blacking out the koran’s anti-Semitic parts.
Stapling a list of God’s Original Commandments onto the cover of the koran with the Sixth one heavily underlined and a note that says “See the Bible”.
Suggesting to moslems that if they insist on taking over churches perhaps they would be willing to reciprocate and allow their mosques to be used for lectures{Tonight’s topics:Why allah completely missed the two chief commandments,mo the white man and slave trader in black people,allah’s epic theology fails},a karaoke evening and comedy club followed by a performance of Fiddler on the Roof( in Hebrew),proceeds of which are to go to ….the Israeli Defense Forces for their outstanding work in defending Israel.
Asking moslems to at least TRY to obey God’s actual commandments instead of allah’s misinterpretations of them.But that might be too controversial:
That might bring the mosque down and they might to decide to slay the unbelievers wherever they find them……And not get the irony of the fact that in so doing,by following allah’s teachings..they are breaking God’s Commandments.
DuncanThorburn says
I’m on a 30 day ban for saying: Muhammad was a Mass Murderer, a Paedophile, a Sex Slave Maker, Owner, Trader, and User. ALL FACTUALLY CORRECT, EVEN MUSLIMS SAY THIS AS THERE IS NOTHING UNTRUE ABOUT IT. Unfortunately, the Socialists who are almost always Atheists, say this is lies. They don’t pick up a book or study anything, they are just Capitalists without money.
Mark Zuckerberg IS A JEW, JUST AS IS ROTHSCHILDS THE BANKERS WHO FUNDED HITLER, AND KNEW ABOUT THE 6 MILLION JEWS BEING MURDERED. Zuckerberg wants to put FB into Muslim Countries, so he’s stopping the truth about Muhammad, just as Rothschilds did about murdering Jews. ZUTERBERG ROTHSCHILDS CARE ABOUT MONEY, NOTHING ELSE HERE YOU EVIL MONEY GRABBING BASTARDS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$££££££££££££££££££££££££ THERE THAT’S WHAT YOU WORSHIP.