YOURSAY 'It is like as if we have also tried journalist Hamza Kashgari, found him guilty and sent him back to Saudi Arabia to be executed.'

M'sia deports Saudi journalist Kashgari

Paul Warren: Malaysians now have blood on their hands. If journalist Hamza Kashgari is executed in Saudi Arabia, we shall all be guilty.

Our responsibility should have been to just let him pass through to wherever he was going to go to.

It is like as if we have also tried him, found him guilty and sent him back to his home country to be executed.

Malaysia ABU: "On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you've always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you," Hamza Kashgari wrote in one tweet.

"On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more," he wrote in a second.

"On your birthday, I shall not bow to you. I shall not kiss your hand. Rather, I shall shake it as equals do, and smile at you as you smile at me. I shall speak to you as a friend, no more," he concluded in a third.

These expressions resulted in Kashgari be hunted down and sent back to Saudi Arabia for a possible death sentence?

Anonymous_3f7d: Thanks Malaysia ABU, for posting the tweet messages. They are very profound and thought provoking.

Why should Kashgari be condemned to death for something so profoundly and beautifully expressed?

They represent his thoughts and how he feels about the personal relationship between him and the Prophet.

I'm sure if these were uttered way back during the Prophet's time, he would be interested enough to engage this bright young man in an intellectual debate.

Isn't there any space for personal thoughts to be expressed in such a beautiful religion?

Alex M: Kashgari is a young man just expressing his opinion about God. Surely God would have understood him and forgiven him. Instead, we play God and send him to a possible death.

Do you seriously think God is pleased by our actions? It's a sad day indeed. We can only offer our prayers to save this lad.

Cocomomo: Sickening. Why send a man to suffer for expressing his opinion. What about the leaders who curse various religious figures? Should they all be executed?

The Almighty can take care of himself. He can send a bolt lightning to strike down those who displease him if he wants to do so.

It is not for us, who are imperfect, to make decisions in such matters. Humans are too biased, especially those who claim to act in God's name.

What the Malaysian government has done is wrong. If you do not like him or do not want him to be a thorn in your relationship with the Saudis, just send him off to wherever he wants to go, but not deport him to a place ruled by the unjust.

Ferdtan: Even when there is no bilateral extradition agreement between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, Malaysia did an 'illegal' act by deporting a young Saudi journalist back to his country.

His blood is on our country's leaders' hands, especially Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's, who ultimately had to approve this political deportation.

The right thing to do - the Muslim way - is to let him fight it out in our court, and let him have a fair public hearing.

If any of our Muslim leaders is complicit with this travesty of natural justice were to go to on the Haj, to the home of this young man, you have come to the Holy Land with tainted hands.

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Hang Tuah PJ: Allah the Almighty, the All forgiving. He who sees all, hears all and knows all.

If he deemed so, this young lad would have died the moment he uttered anything blasphemous. Who are we humans to take a life that has been giveth by Allah s.w.t.

If this lad is confused, it is not his fault, it is the society that he is living in and the people who trained him to think that way.

I pray and ask Allah s.w.t. to save this young lad and forgive him if he had actually uttered anything blasphemous and save the image of Islam.

The Malaysian authorities, as usual, are being more Arab than the Arabs, with the usual "we are the best Muslims in the world" mindset.

Onyourtoes: This isn't about close ties with Saudi Arabia. This isn't about outrage by human rights groups.

This is about expediency, pandering to the demand of extremist constituents. Surely PAS will not protest, or will they? They will prove who is more pious and zealous.

What is one young Saudi life? It is dirt cheap.

Kgen: He should never have come to Malaysia. If he had gone to Indonesia, he would have a chance, but the corrupt Umno goons here have no notion of human rights.

Not Convinced: Kashgari should have read Malaysiakini before deciding to flee to Malaysia.

He would then realised how close our ‘real' PM aka FLOM (First Lady of Malaysia) is to Saudi Prince Saud Al-Saud. Here's the news report .

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