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Dubai: Three men detained, fined $136,000 each for insulting Islam on Instagram and Facebook

Jan 23, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

A glimpse into the future of the West. Right now, insulting Islam will only get you deplatformed, vilified, and suspended from your job. Fines and detention are still in the future.

“3 men in Dubai fined Dh500,000 each for insulting Islam online,” by Marie Nammour, Khaleej Times, January 20, 2020:

Three security guards of a five-star resort have each been fined Dh500,000 by a Dubai court for insulting Islam on social media.

The Dubai public prosecution accused the three Sri Lankans, aged between 28 and 34, of contempt of religion through posts on Instagram and Facebook. It referred them to trial pursuant to the anti-discriminatory and hatred law and the Federal Penal Code.

The Dubai Court of First Instance ordered that all the three accused be deported after paying the fines.

The trio has been detained.

The case dates back to May 19 last year. It was registered at Al Barsha police station.

A police sergeant said they moved to the resort after receiving the report. “We found the three guards were already restrained by their colleagues.

“With a prosecution warrant, we later searched their places and seized their mobile phones and laptops.”

The incident was reported by a senior public relations officer at the resort. “I learned about the three employees’ posts in May last year. We summoned them for an internal probe. They admitted they had those posts on their accounts on Facebook.”

The sergeant told the prosecution investigator that the three defendants admitted they had posted those inappropriate messages and pictures on their accounts on social media….

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  1. Leif Knudsen says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 8:58 am

    Hate speech, hate crime. Anyone can say that.
    I hate nazis – there you have it, I committed hate speech.
    I hate communism – there it was again.

  2. E T says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 am

    Leander, are you also know as Ibby? What mosque do you attend? Are you married to little girls?

  3. jca reid says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 10:27 am

    One notices they pick on 3rd World folk!! Easier Targets. Islam is that weak it has to resort to these tactics. It is only by the Western Appeasers & Apologists it is allowed to permeate its existence. Even the Muslim Political Leaders & the Imams KNOW it is complete hogwash & an anathema for Human Beings to live by this “Code of Perversion”!

    • mortimer says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 11:01 am

      Reply to jca: yes, Islam is ‘weak’ today more than at any time in its history. Cracks are forming throughout Islam that will cause it to crumble within 20 years. Our job is to convince Muslims that Islam is of human origin. We can do it.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 1:01 pm

      Well, there are no more Jews in Dubai. There are no more Christians in Dubai. So these imams or whatever are moving on, down the list of who to kill or where to pick up a little jizya.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 23, 2020 at 4:00 pm

        Exactly, Giacomo.

  4. No Muzzies Here says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 11:11 am

    Facebook, along with the other social media, is a trap. It’s easy to post, but your post can cost you your job or get you thrown in jail. In oppressive Muslim countries, ever worse.

    The trap is sprung only for people who criticize the politically-correct groups. Members of those groups can say anything they want.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 4:00 pm

      And Facebook has been cooperating in this–just sickening.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    As for the subject of Facebook, it should be of no surprise that a post that is acceptable in this jihadwatch site is ejected by the Facebook cooperation as a violation of its “community standards” .

    For example, just this month , as on 1/20/20 , Facebook sent me notification that my posting went against its “community.standards ” and likewise i’m now on a thirty day ban Facebook put me on for that posting

    So the following is the posting that went against the C S of Facebook that it removed from its site and placed me on that thirty day ban for.

    ” The vast increase of sex assaults against the Swedish girls and women in the nation of Sweden has been strongly linked to the large number of male Muslim migrants may serve as an example of Muslim ungratefulness and unthankfulness for letting them enter Sweden to live. This this further exposes the Muslim’s Islamic contempt for people who are Westerners and Western civilization, Western laws.

    This Muslim violence may be yet better explained by one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled THE FARMER AND THE VIPER. So here it is “Once in ancient Greece there was a farmer outside on a very cold winter day walking in if field to make sure that everything is in order and as it should be. The farmer came upon a half-froze viper about to die from the bitter cold. The kind yet foolish farmer took pity on the viper and in an action of kindness put it his is vest jacket to warms and up and thus save its life. The viper warned up revived and then bit farmer through the vest jacket. So the kind but foolish farmer died a slow painful death in awful agony because he felt sorry of the viper and saved it life. The point to this fable is the no amount of kindness will change and vicious and evil nature.

    So it is with those Muslim migrants who were allowed to enter Sweden to live . Those violent migrants who are Muslims will not be impress and change because kindness of Westerners. This is because those violent Muslims have that ungrateful dangerous viper nature because of their venomous and violent religion which is Islam. “

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 4:02 pm

      Apparently it is against Facebook’s “community standards” to oppose rape, Walter. Just appalling–sorry this happened to you.

      • GreekEmpress says

        Jan 23, 2020 at 5:29 pm

        I’m sorry too, Walter. Facebook’s “community standards” really translates into “community censorship”.

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Jan 23, 2020 at 8:26 pm

        Although I suspect the shareholders of Facebook don’t give a rat’s ass about the censorship that Zuckerberg or his inner circle are applying to the entire world, for those of use who care about democracy this is taken us down the road to the tyranny of the unelected.

      • Walter Sieruk says

        Jan 24, 2020 at 11:24 am

        To gravenimage, thank you for your reply of support. What happened this year is a reminder that Facebook last,year , banned me for thirty days for using philosophy to counter the Islamic ideology that is the foundation of jihad suicide/homicide bombing.

        Later after that thirty day ban was up . I then posted to Bible based essays that exposed the Quran based doctrine that incites jihadists to become suicide/homicide bombers as one of the false doctrines from the Quran. . Facebook then,again ,banned me by the CS for thirty days.

        Therefore what you keyboarded that “Apparently it is against Facebook’s ‘community standards to oppose rape.” Likewise is seems apparent that that it’s also against Facebook’s “community standards” to oppose jihadist suicide /homicide bombings

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 1, 2020 at 3:33 pm

          Awful, Walter.

  6. maemae77 says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    Mark Zuckerberg loves his Muslims so much that he lets them run Facebook. Now Facebook is Sharia Law compliant. Meanwhile, all other ideologies have absolutely no
    Such protections. This needs to end. We have freedom of speech. Crazy how it’s only Islam on that list. No other ideology is protected. Just the one that has been slaughtering and conquering for over 1,400 years.
    Muslim Illhan Omar claims how Jews have blinded the world, She’s full of crap. Islam is the only ideology that implements Blasphemy laws because Muslims can’t legitimately defend Islam So Muslims have to shut you up because they know Islam depends on the ignorance of non-Muslims to survive. Islam survive this long because it has blinded the world. 90 out of 100 non-Muslims will defend Islam even though they know nothing about it. It sad people turning on their own and standing up for the devil’s totalitarian ideology.

    Extract Sharia Law from Islam and it will crumble. This needs to be done to save any countries left. If this is not done, we’re all screwed.

  7. BegrensEuropa! says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 1:38 pm

    The Sri Lankans made the islamo-critical comments on Facebook in the aftermath of the Easter bombings by a radicalized moslim with dozens of people killed and hurndreds wounded. Who could possibly blame them.

    • Walter Sieruk says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 3:12 pm

      To BegrensEuropal,, So right you are in your comment . Those Sri Lankan’s who keyboarded critical comments of Facebook about Islamic inspiring those Easter bombing had only been “guilty'” of posting the truth. Facebook must not really care about the truth.

      Furthermore, those murderous jihadists in their horrible Easter Sunday jihad bombings in Sri Lanka were not acting 2:191. out in a hijacked form of Islam but actual Quran based non-watered down hard core . As the Quran teaches in 9:111, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Likewise, this “holy book” of Islam also instructs in 47:4 “ Whenever you encounter the disbeliever strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”

      Let’s face it, using bombs as those as the Sir Lanka jihadists did can, for sure, make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can. There are the other verses the give instruction for violence and killing for the cause of Islam, as 2:191. 5:33. 8:39.9:5, 38-39.

      • Istvan Vogel says

        Jan 24, 2020 at 6:11 am

        The trouble is we don’t know the facts. We don’t know what they actually wrote on their facebook pages. It would be good to know the precise facts and the legal definitions used by the prosecution.

  8. gravenimage says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 3:30 pm

    Dubai: Three men detained, fined $136,000 each for insulting Islam on Instagram and Facebook
    ………………….

    This crushing of freedom of speech and Shari’ah blasphemy laws should not surprise. No one is allowed to criticize or even question Islam. What happens if the victims cannot pay these bribes? I shudder to think.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 4:05 pm

      Since the victims are security guards, I doubt they have an extra $136,000–the price of a small home in the US–each just lying around. Will they face prison? Will Sri Lanka go to bat for them? I doubt it. Most of these workers in Dubai are from poor countries.

    • Jaydam says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 1:08 am

      This crushing of freedom of speech and Shari’ah blasphemy laws should not surprise. No one is allowed to criticize or even question Islam. What happens if the victims cannot pay these bribes? I shudder to think.

      They will probably be given 100 lashes GI

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 24, 2020 at 1:42 am

        Likely so, Jaydam.

        And this can be deadly. Here’s a 15-year-old girl who died after receiving a hundred lashes:

        “Fifteen-Year-Old Hena Begum Dies after Receiving 100 Lashes”

        http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/02/fifteen-year-old-hena-begum-dies-after.html

  9. Jay says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 3:28 am

    islam is the stupidest pile of evil stinking horseshit ever invented by the Devil. I hope that insults someone out there.

    • Glyn david says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 3:41 am

      I’m offended…offended that is sweeping across the west…little old Adelaide South Oz is plagued with them….& bushfires

  10. FYI says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 8:42 am

    Are these statements insulting to islam because it IS hard to know?

    islam is just so peaceful isn’t it?{Delivered in a sarcastic tone with a sneering look}

    islamic beliefs:they show the MAD in muhaMAD don’t they?

    c’mon islam:ya want some of this?huh?

    Ridicule muhammed?No I won’t do that.I won’t even mention muhammed’s magical FLYING HORSEY with a woman’s face called and a peacock tail called buraq ….or what Ubaydullah said about muhammed in ABU DAWUD 40:4731 when he saw him;so what if muhamed was not exactly like Hercules in appearance?No I won’t ridicule islam..

    Logic,Wisdom,Tolerance,Understanding:Well there is none of that infidel “nonsense” in islam is there?

    islam..brrrrrr…It gives me the Chills…they’re multiplying…

    islam,shislam.Meh

    islam is just sooooo sensitive these days:it just can’t deal with “insults”..

    islam:ah yes!,the religion of “peace”,the “perfect” man,the “perfect” book.
    When discussing islam my dear students, the infidels among you may use inverted commas
    as in islam the word “perfect” means imperfect,”peace” means violence and “prophet” means “con man”

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