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UAE: Non-Muslim fired, faces prison for insulting Islam on social media

Apr 10, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Where is Stuart Harrison from? From his name, he doesn’t appear to be a UAE native. He may be a convert to Islam, but is unlikely to have been born into a Muslim family and named “Stuart.” But note how eagerly he is complying with Sharia blasphemy provisions: “Harrison said they are trying to find out if Kitturmath was still in the UAE. ‘We have over 8,500 employees so this may take a while. That said, we have fired him. If he’s still in the country, he will be handed over to Dubai Police,’ he said.”

Harrison’s company is in Dubai, so it’s understandable that Harrison would believe that he has to act this way. Fire him, sure. But turn him over to police? Is it really necessary for Harrison and his company to serve as the enforcement arm for Dubai’s blasphemy laws?

This incident shows yet again the future of the U.S. This can’t happen here, you say? We respect the freedom of speech, you say? Maybe that was true at one time, but it is no longer. Cowardice is pandemic. Newspapers all over the country refused to republish the notorious Muhammad cartoons out of a newfound “respect” for Islam that they never showed for negative portrayals of Christianity, which they hailed as “courageous.” Those who call attention to the ideological roots of jihad violence are excoriated as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes,” and most organizations on both the Left and the Right would never dare feature such people as speakers. Any organization that does is immediately denounced and called upon to apologize, and it usually does. So given that this is the climate today, what do you think the situation will be like in ten or twenty years?

“Indian expat sacked, faces jail for insulting Islam in the UAE,” by Mazhar Farooqui, Gulf News, April 9, 2020:

Dubai: Yet another Indian expat in the UAE is facing police action after being fired for insulting Islam on social media.

Rakesh B. Kitturmath, who worked as a team leader at Emrill Services, an integrated facilities management (FM) headquartered in Dubai, was sacked on Thursday, the company’s chief executive officer told Gulf News.

“Kitturmath’s employment stands terminated with immediate effect. He will be handed over to Dubai Police. We have a zero-tolerance policy towards such hate crimes,” said Stuart Harrison, CEO of Emrill Services.

Harrison said, “As an organisation, we have worked hard over the years to embrace diversity and create a culture of inclusion, where every nationality, religion and background is welcomed and celebrated. We have a strict social media policy for our employees to ensure they respect our values, both inside and outside of work. As a result, the employee in question has been terminated and the matter has been passed to the appropriate authorities.”

Kitturmath sparked outrage on social media after he ridiculed Muslim worshippers in response to a Facebook post on coronavirus.

Gulf News is refraining from publishing the actual message as it is too explicit.

A screenshot of Kitturmath’s response went viral on social media with hundreds demanding his dismissal and arrest.

Harrison said they are trying to find out if Kitturmath was still in the UAE. “We have over 8,500 employees so this may take a while. That said, we have fired him. If he’s still in the country, he will be handed over to Dubai Police,” he said.

Originally from Ranebennuri, Karnataka, Kitturmath joins an ever growing list of Indian expats who have landed in trouble for Islamophobic messages in recent days.

Earlier this week, Abu Dhabi resident Mitesh Udeshi was sacked for posting a cartoon mocking Islam on his Facebook page while a police complaint was filed against Sameer Bhandari of Future Vision Events & Weddings’ in Dubai after he asked a Muslim job seeker from India to go back to Pakistan.
Strict laws

The UAE outlaws all religious or racial discrimination under a legislation passed in 2015.

The anti-discrimination/anti-hatred law prohibits all acts “that stoke religious hatred and/or which insult religion through any form of expression, be it speech or the written word, books, pamphlets or via online media.”

The legislation mainly aims to fight “discrimination against individuals or groups based on religion, caste, doctrine, race, color or ethnic origin.”…

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Dubai, Featured, free speech, Islamic supremacism, United Arab Emirates Tagged With: Emrill Services, Rakesh B. Kitturmath, Stuart Harrison


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  1. TheRemorselessHeadsman says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 3:37 pm

    “As an organisation, we have worked hard over the years to embrace diversity and create a culture of inclusion, where every nationality, religion and background is welcomed and celebrated“.

    Just curious but with such a free and open-minded policy, precisely how many people of the Jewish faith or Israelis are employed there? With over 8,500 employees, they must have quite a few, right?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 10, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      Good point.

  2. tom parry says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    So the UAE should ban the koran!! please note I am an islamphope.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 5:51 pm

    Kittimurth was encouraging people to save lives by accepting the quarantine. However, look at the dhimmi attitude of his employer! “We have a zero-tolerance policy towards such hate crimes.”

    So … telling people to observe the quarantine is a ‘hate crime’!

    Not for sensible people.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 10, 2020 at 9:01 pm

      Yes. That this is considered a “hate crime” in the UAE but abusing, robbing, and raping Infidels is not says it all.

  4. keith says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Anti discrimination laws like these are, in theory, good for a country. That is until they are weaponized by minority groups or anyone else with an ax to grind.
    Then they simply become a means of silencing critics.
    After all, how often do we actually hear of Christians or for that matter any other religion using these laws to shut down/punish someone who speaks out against them?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 10, 2020 at 9:02 pm

      Islam is not a minority group in the UAE. These laws nominally copy Western laws, but the intent is nothing but enforcing Shari’ah law.

  5. jewdog says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    Very clever, I take my hat off, to those Muslims who rationalize anti-free speech rules in terms of “hate speech”. They have grabbed the reins of a major social trend and are riding it for all it’s worth. It’s a clever masking of something utterly reactionary with something seemingly avant garde, and it has fooled a lot of allegedly smart people. It also helps to have oil money to make the point.

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 10, 2020 at 10:04 pm

      Yes, jewdog.

      I’ll give Muslims a 10 out of 10 for being clever in a most evil way – and leveraging Western freedoms to push their Islamic propaganda to the absolute hilt…

      • Soundaryambha says

        Apr 11, 2020 at 3:41 am

        Muslims of India are adept at arm twistings. They are fully aware of the weaknesses of politicians. However it is to be remembered none of the politicians hire muslims among the Black Cat Commandos giving them 24/7 protection.

        It is the Hindus who have been betrayed brazenly.

        @ Stone pelting jihadis are called ”misguided youth , innocent kids who need to be rehabilitated ..”. Today owing to social media we come to know of grievous injuries suffered by our CRPF & Army Personnel. The government does not CARE. They are always bludgeoned on their heads to ”lay down lives” for the country. It is mostly poor Hindus hailing from various Villages that enlist for Army & CRPF. They have no other option.

        Whereas muslims are unduly pampered through special reservations & given training in tailoring ,carpentry , plumbing , masonry electrical work etc etc . In addition Modi has made special reservations in IAS ( civil services) etc also for muslims. No wonder they were openly threatening recently to ”boycott all Hindu households”.

        It is illegal bangladeshis & rohingya muslims spread all over India that are employed in many hotels , in construction industry , roadside eateries & so on. Often they rape as a gang , kill & escape to a neighbouring state. Resurface after a while.Mainstream media seldom reports.

        For instance in the Nirbhaya rape & murder one of the rapists is a muslim. He inserted an iron rod into her genitals gruesomely torturing & killing. Got acquitted by being called a ”minor”. Subsequently was treated FREE for appendicitis & now I read he is working in a dhaba ( roadside eatery) in Tamil Nadu.

        Even Indian Police are very scared of them as the establishment forbids them from carrying even batons.Forbidden from using rubber pellets. Muslims carry all kinds of deadly weapons like petrol bombs ,knives , stones , guns & attack as a mob. And get away with it.

        The supply chain of agricultural produce is monopolized by muslims. Only recently videos have been posted of them spitting on each & every fruit smearing them with their saliva , spitting into packed food. In America some muslims mixed their faeces to flour & made pastries cakes selling them to non muslims.

        A Hindu retailer of cell phones in a southern state was threatened by a mob of muslims to close down .

        I repeat the Establishment protects & shields the muslims. The media is heavily biased towards them. Including the present PM Modi & his bjp.

    • Soundaryambha says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 3:16 am

      Very perceptive of you.

      Every politician in India is so scared & dependent on their votes to survive people have been forbidden from mentioniing tablighi jamaat. Instead all have to say ”single source”. If not arrest by Police.

      Even if muslims are not going to vote for a particular party , those members appease as they fear for their lives. The PM Modi made FAKE promises while campaigning ” appeasement of none”.
      Read the following to gain insight into his betrayal of Hindus.

      https://swarajyamag.com/politics/twelve-reasons-why-indias-minority-policy-is-a-sham-its-anti-national-too

  6. Val says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    The govt. of Dubai, or any Muslim country, cannot force anyone to respect a violent criminal guilty of mass murder, rape, and robbery. Actions speak louder than words. Muhammad’s behavior speaks louder than all the words he ever spoke.

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    UAE: Non-Muslim fired, faces prison for insulting Islam on social media
    ………………

    This poor man. There is no freedom of speech in Islam.

  8. Soundaryambha says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 3:49 am

    Very important.

    https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/tablighi-jamaat-coronavirus-toilet-defecate-corridor-sunnah-markaz-habits/

  9. Phil Copson says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 6:14 am

    “…The UAE outlaws all religious or racial discrimination under a legislation passed in 2015.

    The anti-discrimination/anti-hatred law prohibits all acts “that stoke religious hatred and/or which insult religion through any form of expression, be it speech or the written word, books, pamphlets or via online media.”

    The legislation mainly aims to fight “discrimination against individuals or groups based on religion, caste, doctrine, race, color or ethnic origin…”
    ————————————————————————————————————–

    How lovely…..so will Mazhar Farooqui of “Gulf News” now tell us how many UAE citizens have ever been dismissed, prosecuted, beaten, and imprisoned for insulting Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists etc ?

  10. schwami says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 5:23 pm

    Part 1
    I am sure you haven’t studied Hinduism or India. India or Hinduism can be very bewildering for a westerner.

    There were two root causes for this: 1. inability to handle deception and 2. not being ruthless enough

    Before Muslims, Hindus had war codes – the fight would be during day time, no civilian would be touched. When muslim invaders came, they attacked during nights, plundered civilians. People couldn’t understand them initially. Such barbarity was totally unthinkable and new. When Hindus understood it, they started getting their country back.

    Same thing happened with Foreign colonizers. Deception and not being ruthless enough made them forsake control over large parts of country.

    Same story again. The reason is the decline of one of its greatest texts – Mahabharat. I have known 10,000 hindus. None of them have read it fully. None of them have it in their house. Until every hindu start reading its all volumes, their situation won’t improve. Here problem is all translations are defective because there is no market for it. In English, the colonizers translated it for political reasons and totally inaccurate.

    2nd part –
    Hindus changing gods was the most unnoticed news in 20th century. Media, Movies and Intellegentia defied Gandhi and Nehru. Every body was talking about them. When hindus were about to build their institutions destroyed in colonial period, Nehru and team fearing hindu revival, banned hindus from teaching their religious books in a school. The government took over all the important hindu temples.

    The Indian constitution doesn’t allow hindus to open their own school and teach their religious texts. All donations to hindu temples go to governments. So, hindus couldn’t build their institutions. 99% of hindus don’t have any knowledge about their religion. Ask them what is hindu dharm, who and what is hindu, they won’t know.

    Special note – With no knowledge about their own religious texts, and constant government propaganda, a lot of them, esp the metro people started deifying Gandhi, Nehru and Marx. It gave rise to three more religions

    Congressism – Gandhi as God and Nehru as prophet
    Secularism – Nehru as God, and Indira as true daughter
    Communism – You already know. What you don’t know is it is like a religion in many parts of India.

    • schwami says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 5:33 pm

      My replies was to Rick James’s comments:

      “Unfortunately there is cowardice and pacifism at the core of Hinduism, which is why India was invaded and conquered by invaders and other nations.

      Even today they boast a lot about their military but only spend a tiny fraction of their GDP on Defense. It’s a dangerous ideology and in the end if you don’t show strength and willingness to fight and defend your people then you’ll just get bullied and conquered again.”

      Please see a short reply above. Thank you.

      P. S. – India’s official religion is Secularism which in practice means Anti-hinduism. Another popular one is Congressism. If you understand this, you will know why the Indian system doesn’t stand up for Hindus.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    Stop muslim migration let them rot in their sharia ruled countries. Anything non-muslims do to help them is never appreciated as they expect the rest of us to take care of them as it is our duty. Well screw them, I owe them nothing and have no desire to support or give them aide.

  12. Christopher Logan says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    That’s the “moderate” UAE right?

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