Indian engineer sentenced to 5 years for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia

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The new, modern Saudi Arabia. They keep telling us that with the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the king’s 32-year-old son, who has laid out a far-reaching plan to overhaul the kingdom’s economy and society, Saudi Arabia will now enter the modern age, and all will be well, and Islam itself will reform and become peaceful. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has made headlines all over the world for promising a new, modernized Saudi Arabia, and for calling for a return to “a more moderate Islam.”

Here it is. Ask Vishnudev, when (or if) he is released in five years, how “moderate” he believes the new Saudi Arabia of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman really is.

“Indian engineer sentenced to 5 years for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia,” by Trisha Thomas, Ultra News, September 20, 2018:

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An engineer from Kerala working with a petroleum company in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment and a fine of around Rs 30 lakhs for his tweets.

With this, Vishnudev, a native of Alleppey in Kerala, has become the first Indian to be punished under Saudi Arabia’s stricter anti-blasphemy laws that came into force two weeks ago.

The new rules promise up to five years of imprisonment and a fine of up to 3 mln riyals (Rs 5.8 cr) for anyone who mocks or insults the religious and moral values of the country.

The law also covers incendiary and subversive posts and messages, and is applicable to both the creation of such messages as well as their distribution or forwarding.

Vishnudev was found guilty of making remarks against the legal system in Saudi Arabia and against the Prophet of Islam in a conversation on Twitter….

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

And Macron threatens Hungary , poland for not selling out their countries to islamonazis
like he and his party has been doing in france https://tinyurl.com/y6vlqtwq

what’s wrong with these lunatics ?
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Рон Джамин
Рон Джамин
5 years ago

What moron insults the country they are in, especially Saudi Arabia.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Yeah it’s his fault the Soddy Barbarian bastards are 8th century, theocratic, totalitarian troglodytes. Why don’t you go live in some muslum sh!ttystan pal?

Рон Джамин
Рон Джамин
5 years ago

You are a special kind of stupid. Still riding the short bus?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

“Moderate” islum leads to “moderate” persecution, but even then no one is free.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

India should break off relations with Saudi Arabia in response.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

No way. India depends on oil from both saudi and Iran . The govt is run by idiots who cannot get their act together and support more thermal power, ethanol , methanol to reduce dependence on oil

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

India has really no energy resources to sustain itself independently?

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Read my previous comment again you’ll get your answer.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Fat chance considering India is the second or third most populous muslum country on this earth.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Well, that didn’t stop it from recognizing Israel or pursuing strong ties with them.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Breaking off ties w/Soddy Barbaria? The nexus of islamic evil? They banned Salman Rushdie from coming to India and that’s where he was born!

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

what was it again? moHAMhead the madman jumped over the moon? or was it another boogey man fairy tale?

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

Five years is a moderate response. The usual penalty for telling the truth is death.

At least he lives. Cross fingers.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

I wouldn’t want to be locked up in a Soddy Barbarian prison for blasphemy for the sole reason most all of my fellow inmates will be muslums.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
5 years ago

It’s doubtful that Saudi Arabia will ever become “moderate”. Islam is still islam.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago

I don’t fell any sorry for anyone who is working for these creatures in nightshirts.

chris VN
chris VN
5 years ago

No doubt he only tweeted the truth about islam.

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