Apostasy in Islam - Hamza Kashgari

"Saudi women won't go to hell because it's impossible to go there twice"

Another day, another story about how idiotic Muslims/Islam are/is... Yes Muslims and Islam are attacked unfairly and uncategorically on a daily basis by the media but this story is a travesty that is rightly attributed. Well not to Islam as such but the absurdity of the Saudi regime.

Quick recap of 23-year-old Kashgari's ordeal: On the Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) birthday, Kashgari tweeted three things,

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Following this, there were 30,000 tweets regarding his tweets and a Facebook page set up calling for his execution, outweighing the numbers calling for his exoneration. He apologised and deleted his twitter. He attempted to claim political asylum in New Zealand, though stopped in Malaysia first, where he was promptly deported back to the Saudi authorities through Interpol. Apparently Saudi are to charge him with blasphemy, however many are worried or in fact excited that he will be actually charged with apostasy, having already being found 'guilty' of it by Saudi religious authorities.

Let's get something straight, yes, this country is the country in which the holy cities of Mecca and Medina are but by no means does this 'Kingdom of Saudi Arabia' represent Islam. This fact alone gives them undue regard from many Muslims around the world and more worryingly, from all Western powers. Saudi Arabia was created by Britain less than a century ago and still remains a western puppet that amongst other things, advocates bombing Iran. The royal douches practice and impose Wahaabiism, an extremely conservative form of Islam.

To surmise, allow me to quote Sir Colin Crowe, a British ambassador in 1963,
'dominated by a sect of Islam of a farouche and intolerant Puritanism, but ruled by a royal family whose extravagance and dissipation are only rivalled by its numbers. It has no modern code of laws and its criminal justice system is of mediaeval barbarity. There is not even a pretence of democratic institutions... corruption is widespread. The country sits on top of some of the richest oil resources in the world and enjoys a vast unearned income which has dissipated in pleasure, palaces and Cadillacs.'

Nothing much has changed then.

The Qur'an and Hadiths do not speak about blasphemy, it was one of those man-made things implemented into the Sharia after the Prophet (pbuh) had long gone. Any time there is a story that is Islam-related online you can expect an ignorant barrage of comments because every man and his dog has an opinion on Islam, but remember there is no requirement or recommendation for this 'crime' in Islam and the only authority; the Qur'an. There are countless stories about the Prophet being berated and having things literally thrown at him in the street and he never retaliated. Some Muslims say they revere him so much yet they are loathe to follow his actual actions and act like intolerant buffoons instead. There is even a video of a sheik weeping and unable to perform his sermon because he is so distraught at the talk of allowing Kashgari to live. Where's his tears for the Saudis (royals) who go off to Bahrain at the weekend to drink alcohol, or something much less trivial than drinking alcohol, you know things like children being maimed and killed in other Muslim countries. Nothing is said publicly about the atrocities perpetrated by certain regimes but God forbid a 23-year-old man makes barely offensive tweets!