Bad news for Hamza Kashghari. And shame on the craven government of Malaysia. That government has extradited Kashghari back to Saudi Arabia on the latter’s request.
Extradition takes place when a government sends a person back to another country under that second country’s declaration of him as a criminal. That requires that whatever the person did also be a crime in the country from which he is to be sent back. Thus, Malaysia’s having a law that criminalizes blasphemy is a prerequisite for its extraditing of him. As facts have it, Malaysia does have such a law. Kashghari made a serious mistake in choosing to go to Malaysia. Had he picked, for example, the Philippines or Thailand, he would likely have been unextraditable.
Now, he will be returned his home country, where a raging froth of public anger will make it all too easy for a court to find him guilty and impose the harshest of sentences.
Malaysia deports Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari
Malaysian authorities have deported a Saudi journalist accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a tweet.
Police confirmed to the BBC that Hamza Kashgari was sent back to Saudi Arabia on Sunday despite protests from human rights groups.
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 is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.
Mr Kashgari, 23, fled Saudi Arabia last week and was detained upon his arrival in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
He had tweeted his doubts about Muhammad on the prophet’s birthday last week. Saudi clerics condemned his remarks as blasphemous.
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February:12:2012 - 12:10
Do you really believe he was in Malaysia? I donn’t
Just like PresidenT Saleh of Yemem espcaped Saudi airport someone humerously once said with a packet of smarties…or some other snack
And the plot thickens…wORLDWIDE i Mean I thought to myself what does Malaysia have to gain by lying and what do they have to lose by lying. Just ignore me I’m just talkin shit ppl
February:12:2012 - 12:53
I have a confession, I was on Penang Island at a hotel at the furthest end of an island and whilst I was sleeping someone/ thing must have slashed my finger I think with a sharp piece of glass. I’m not joking. I don’t like that place and will never return. I swear the plane ride back there was the worst ride i ever had on a plane.
February:12:2012 - 14:51
Hamza is the savior of the Saudi government. This is exactly what the government needs to distract people from issues that really matter. I’ve never seen such a fast Saudi government response to an issue before; it’s almost as if they were waiting for something like this to happen. If they play their cards right, they could drag this in the courts for months and by guaranteeing front page coverage, make this and not issues of unemployment, greater rights the issue of 2012. Well played Saudi government. Well played.
February:12:2012 - 21:39
“Saudi has become a 5-star retirement home for war criminals but Saudi Youth have to fear for their life when tweeting”
https://twitter.com/#!/RuwaydaMustafah/status/168696046451564544
February:13:2012 - 04:58
Fact: The U.S. Will take down Iran and Saudi will be second on their shit list if they don’t straighten up their ACT! Patience Hope…the Sliens say
All things in their do course right?! It really hard being patient thus the reason I wasnt named patience. No government is perfect but I’m glad I’m a member of one of the least bull shittiest ones..
God Bless America!
February:14:2012 - 00:29
Not a big surprise. When I heard that he fled to Malaysia of all places I knew this was a far gone conclusion.
February:14:2012 - 10:57
I did not know you were a member of a government, Sparky !
February:14:2012 - 11:07
Michael that is what democracy is called
or at least what “we the people strive for…”
I had to memorize the preamble of the U.S. constitution in High School. When I read the “We” I always felt I was included in the “We”. I would hope most Americans, atheists, Muslim etc., would feel the same way.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Maybe I’m channelling one of the forefathers or something hahahaha
February:14:2012 - 11:29
Aliens still have to have passports…if that’s what you mean.
February:14:2012 - 11:35
I”m one twisted sistor Folks