The 21st century answer to Salman Rushdie has arrived! Saudi-born journalist Hamza Kashgari was arrested in Kuala Lampur for deportation as a result of a series of Tweets that he posted some time ago, where he described an imaginary encounter and conversation with Muhammed. Mr. Kashgari is being accused of blasphemy. If he is charged with and convicted of blasphemy, he may face the death penalty.
Oh, if only he lived in the land of the free and the home of the brave! America doesn't stand for this sort of oppression... unless you have massive oil reserves. Sorry, Mr. Kashgari. If you want our help, you're going to have to get some oil.
Twitter has not yet commented, but one could imagine that they might be thinking "It's called Twitter, you twats! Not 'Serious Discourse!'" Maybe they should include a disclaimer "No tweets less than 141 characters to be taken seriously."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/world/asia/saudi-writer-is-deported-over-twitter-posts-on-prophet-muhammad.html
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