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Subscribe to RSSKuwaiti authorities arrested a man late on Tuesday for insulting the Prophet Mohammad via his Twitter account, the Interior Ministry said, in a rare case of alleged blasphemy in the Gulf Arab state using social media.
Blasphemy is illegal in Kuwait under the 1961 press and publications law, but it is not punishable by death as in neighboring Saudi Arabia, where the case of a columnist facing similar accusations has drawn international attention.
The man, whose name was not disclosed, defamed the Islamic faith and slandered the Prophet Mohammad, his companions and his wife, the ministry said in a statement issued on state-run news agency KUNA. He is being interrogated ahead of court proceedings.
The ministry "regretted the abusing of social networks by some individuals to offend basic Islamic and spiritual values, vowing to show zero tolerance in combating such serious offences," it said in the statement.
In September a Kuwaiti court convicted a man for insulting Gulf rulers and posting inflammatory sectarian comments on social media, but he was released immediately because of time already served while awaiting trial, according to a human rights activist.
Twitter is very popular in Kuwait, with many politicians, journalists and other public figures using the micro-blogging site to debate current events and share gossip. Popular figures can have hundreds of thousands of followers.
Kuwaiti media carried comments from the man denying the accusations. "I will never attack the Holy Prophet," he was reported as saying and added that someone must have hacked his account to post the comments.
His remarks, carried by several of Kuwait's main newspapers, were not immediately verifiable.
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In other words, you can not speak (or in this case type) the truth about Mohammed but lies are ok.
Right on Kurt! This is simply another example of the cruel, cheating, lying culture of islam, nothing more!
LOL! Mohammed can suck my C**K! Oh wait, he only liked little kids. Come get me ...........
Onward Christian Solder
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"Right on Kurt! This is simply another example of the cruel, cheating, lying culture of islam, nothing more!"
While myriad examples abound (including wanting to re criminalize blasphemy in the US) of the cruel, cheating, and lying culture of Christianity. Nothing more!
yeah, cause no other religion would ever kill for blasphemy nor ever has.
/sarcasm
So, he spoke the truth and gets hammered for that? What a great faith that is, and, what a bunch of idiots enforcing idiotic laws.
Whenever someone tells you that religion doesn't cause any REAL harm, just refer them to this article.
From the movie Syriana:
Subliminal: Don't we get Hammered in this country for telling the Truth? If you say something here and it's not "Politically Correct" But the Truth, you get hammered and are called a Racist. True?
Don't you know, Islam is a peaceful religion. That's why we should love all Muslims and believe all their lies. No group of people that hates and kills in the name of their god should be called religious. They are a group of barbarians, that's all.
Unfortunately this sort of thing has a long history in Islam. You can not insult the prophet.Or speak poorly of him.
http://www.quranexplorer.com/Hadith/English/Hadith/dawud/038.4348.html
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
she spoke poorly of the prophet, she disparaged him. Perhaps thinking of the prophet, as a bloodthirsty crazy man.
infanticide, or if you prefer, a very late term, forced abortion of his own child.
No, you were her master, she was a slave, and an infidel.
And this little hadith, says more about the moral character of Mohammad, than I ever could.
Most big religions have this type of problem. Jesus if he ever existed, didn't die choking on a chicken bone..
Personally, I think if you're going to kill for religious purposes, you should at least get a bit of divination out of their death. Nothing better then a human sacrifice IMHO. Gets the mojo flowing so to speak...
Kuwaiti ruler with 65 wives at one time was saved by the infidel US forces in 1991. US forces fixed his golden toilet too.
Another most barbaric, beastly and bigoted Saudi ruler and his 5000 princes and princesses were saved by the US soldiers without Bibles.
Their Islamic radicals and terrorists can blow up whomever they like (including 9/11) in whichever nation they like!
Many of their terrorist bombers have Mohammad some where in the name!
But you can't speak of their Mohammad/Allah and rulers in their nations? Means: death in Saudi Arabia!!
What an oxymoron?
Mohammed sucks a camel D***. Are they going to arrest me now?
No arrest, just LOL!
Actually they can, if you ever visit Kuwait.
Islam and its Koran calls for and teaches "Jihad" (War for Allah and death to ALL Infidels who do not follow the Muslim faith) Jew, Christians, Atheists... I just finished reading a story "Dressing emo is getting kids killed in Iraq." They are being stoned to death, having their sculls crushed. All for being different and questioning this abhorrent excuse for religion. Welcome to the backward moving intolerant Islam of 632A.D. in 2012. Lets call a spade a spade, and quit the political correct BULL@!$%#! It is a geopolitical war on freedom of thought and western civilization.
Add the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Pakistan and others who have such laws!
So when they battle, don't go near them.
In Syria, Iran, Bahrains and some more nations, they (Shiites and Sunnis) are battling whose Mohammad/Allah is purer!
It remains a mystery to me how frail and pathetic a religion/idea/meme/etc. must be that cannot withstand scrutiny or disagreement and why folks would cling so fiercely to such a thing.
It is all they are allowed to know. Thinking or speaking out against Islam, means certain death. This is how their leaders or Mullahs keep the mindless masses under control. Freedom as we know it, does not exist. Thumb screws and the threats of death will keep these regimes in power. Its all they know.
it's abusive, divisive etc... they think for you. your wife is a slave, you are her master. the man gets too much power, the wife is submissive and enslaved. Keeps the whole pony show going nice and neat. Just at the family level males get something out of that system which is why it keeps going....is it Love? what is Love?
Hope now most agree: Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and many Muslim nations are highly barbaric, beastly, bigoted and one-way street blind followers.
They are least worried/bothered about others!
These rulers were saved by infidel forces of US, Britain and European nations by Iraqi wars (1991 and 2003).
The very barbarians and beastly rulers are leading seventh cenutry dances on Syria and Iran.
Keep away from their battles and it is not worth it!
Oh brother. This is why theocracies never work out.
hmmmmm...i wonder what would happen if someone hacked into the accounts of the big politicians over there and posted these blasphemous remarks on their pages? we could probably just use that instead of sending our military over there......just a thought
You're a genius! Think of what we could save on the military alone.
I like your way of thinking !!
yeah but we are not there for justice and freedom, we are there to guard the poppy fields, the oil fields, the battlefields, all the productive fields.
Oh, great Mohammed, leader of the ragheads, please forgive those who blaspheme against a fellow camel-jockey who believes in repressing women, capital punishment for kissing in public and other inane laws. None should speak against one who copied Jewish laws and religion and changed it to satisfy his own idiotic beliefs, including having multiple wives.
In other words, take Mohammed and stick him where the sun doesn't shine. Come and get me, Kuwait!!
Love your response!
Magnifico the Great, it's easy for you to say those things because you're living in the good ol' USA. However, I'm pretty sure you would be singing a different tune if you actually posted the same comment from Kuwait.
Remember you can be stoned for remarks like that. Stay out of the Middle East!
His remarks, carried by several of Kuwait's main newspapers, were not immediately verifiable.
Sounds like, in the rush to get to print, someone didn't want to go to the trouble to get to the heart of the story. What did the guy post?
Agreed, this is a pretty lame cop-out by Western media. You wimps do realize that WE do not live in craphole Kuwait?
The muslimes have trained our media and politicians - say anything about our pedophile and we will go insane, kill a bunch of people (all in a peaceful, non agressive way, of course). The only people you can defame are white Christian males - and they can do nothing that is good, fair or noble.
How can any state or society hope to be stable if written or spoken word can cause such turmoil?
I think this calls for a gesture to show respect for the Kuwaiti's sensitivities. We should offer to let that Jet Bleu captain fly the Kuwaiti royal family to Mecca ! If they don't like to fly, how about a Mediterean cruise ?
Mohammed can kiss my a$$! So there . . .
The first and only real word that immediately comes to mind is 'savages'.
Hey, try posting something negative about Scientology.
Just try saying something bad about christianity on national TV or even not giving their god what they think he's due.
Or worse, say it on the INTERNET. Hoo boy, the emails I get...
It cost money if you want to join Scientology and its full of weidos who a losing their grip on reality. Given time, the minds of these people will become as warped as any other religious nut case.
OK, I probably never will go to Kuwait or any of the other Muslime infested mideast countries but just to make it clear:
I believe the Prophet is the true son of the union of a diseased prostitute and a wild boar, who were performing for the amusement of the people in Mecca. And if that makes him the son of a pig, worse luck for the pig clan.
Mohammad sucks!
Took the words right out of my mouth...
Jesus swallows!
(Fair is fair right?)
... red wine.
and a little sperm...
All Religions Suck and for the most part either are there to make you feel bad about yourself (and take money) or to oppress you (and take money) . Some day people will come to realize that they are still doing what they were designed to do in the first place , take your money and enslave you to the religious leaders (and in some cases take your children's innocence ) .
Religion = the biggest lie ever told
Yes,this man deserves to die for insulting the ULTIMATE BEING.
May the PROPHET be with Wych DoctorGeorge and Joe.
ok every body i agree with all of you, so what do we do? i know what i would like to do, go back to viet nam & live in peace from all this bull @!$%#.
Perhaps one day, not in my lifetime or great grandkids lifetime, light will shine upon the darkness of Islam and Muslims will wake up to a new millennium. The alternative is to remain living in a 21st-century cave clinging to the remnants of a bygone religion. It's sad that so many millions are so blind to their own surroundings. Even the Catholic Church could recognize their own failings in the Inquisition. Wake up Muslims. Smell the Turkish coffee.
Like in the year 2100 they might...just might...advance from the 12th century to the 13th century?
Evertime you insult a Muslim,you owe him a sum of $1,000.00.(this should become law soon)
You capitalist bastards.
lol
You must always remember that when traveling outside of the US, your rights do not travel with you. Yet when a foreigner from Saudi Arabia is in the US, he can say anything he wants as some of our rights are extended to him.
The satanically deceived Pedophile mohammad, was the true Blasphemer. There's only One True Living GOD and HE isn't "allah" of the book of Lies, called the "koran." HE is I AM, That I AM, Yahweh, Jehovah of HIS Book The Bible. Read it and Worship HIM or Weep. Glory Be To GOD Forever and Ever!
Your god's religion is a bigger psycho than allah's. Please actually read the bible, all of it, and engage your brain this time. That book is filled with fairy tales designed to scare people into worshiping something that isn't there.
If nothing else it is a poetic narrative of the Jewish history. Not to be confused with the perverted (polygamy, pedophilia, dieing a martyr for 70+virgins in heaven) plagiarism that is in the Koran. Alverant, let me say this about that. "It is better to let people think you are a self promoting arrogant know-it-all, then to speak and remove all doubt.
Sinner
In short, don't go to Kuwait.
In short, don't go to the Middle East or North Africa.
I've noticed an amusing trend - say something on Twitter that may fry your bacon, then claim the account "must've been hacked" as your defense.
Obviously, tolerance runs high in Muslim countries. I think I'm going to call my travel agent right now and book myself a ticket. Or, maybe not.
like christianity is tolerant. when an atheist wanted to hold a rock rally on a us base the chaplain of that base said it was an attack on christianity. you people make proving your hypocrisy too easy.
Army Chaplain Chuck Williams, for example, posted an open letter on Fort Bragg’s Facebook page calling for cancelation of the event, which he contended is being held only "to secure a public, government-owned venue to ridicule, mock and disparage those of our fellow Soldiers and family members who do profess a faith in God."
Who were the bands? What was the theme? Easy to forecast the intolerance I'd say if the bands were going to go on and on about what a lot of metal does nowadays. Some is OK but a lot of that stuff would not "make a Chaplain happy". Somebody said that - ? Ozzy?
the bands were not heavy metal and the chaplain made no statement of any kind about the bands being the problem but rather that any atheist event was only to make fun of his religio and to interpret that quote in any other way is you trying to make excuses cause his bigotry fits in with your own.
come arrest me your muhammed is nothing more than a F murderer, and a piece of donkey dung, and may all the people in the world throw PIGS BLOOD on his grave.
They will, if you live in Kuwait.
Q: Why is there so much food at a Muslim wedding? A: To keep the flies off the bride.
Q: Wanna hear a joke? A: Muslim Women's Rights.
In the recent earthquake in Pakistan rescuers recovered 10,000 bodies and tomorrow they are going into the second house.
Q: A Pakistani, a Turk, and a Moroccan are riding through Germany - who's driving? A: A police officer.
Q: A car full of Pakistanis and a car full of Somalis are racing down a hill. They both fall off a cliff at the same time, who wins? A: Civilization.
Q: What do Muslim men think is the best thing about having sex with twenty-eight year olds? A: There's 20 of them.
Q: Why do Muslims smell? A: So blind people can hate them too.
Q: What do you have when a Muslim is buried up to his neck in sand? A: Not enough sand.
Q: What's wrong with 15 Muslims on a bus at the bottom of a pond? A: The bus has 16 seats.
A Muslim man goes into a drugstore and says to the druggist, "I need some birth control for my eleven-year-old daughter."
"Is your little girl sexually active?" asks the druggist.
"Nah, she just lays there like her mother."
Thanks! I needed a LOL moment!
Where is the love? People like you...well, make me laugh. I guess I fail the politically correct test too.
I bow before your humor :)
I, unlike most Islamists, can take a a joke and see the humor! Intolerance is a scurge and this false profit has a choke hold on 1/4 of the worlds population!
Nice but you failed to mention Mohammad.
I say let these towel headed idiots kill each other, pave the place and put up a walmart and a piggly wiggly!
How do you insult anyone that's dead??
Tell bad dead people jokes.
Have sex with their corpse. Yeah I went there.