Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, police said, over Twitter comments he made that were deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad. Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year-old columnist, sparked outrage in the oil-rich kingdom with comments posted on the Prophet\'s birthday a week ago that led some Islamic clerics to call for him to face the death penalty. Kashgari fled the country, but was arrested by police in majority-Muslim Malaysia on Thursday as he transited through Kuala Lumpur international airport. \"The Saudi writer was repatriated to his home country this Sunday morning,\" a police spokesman told Reuters. \"This is an internal Saudi matter that we cannot comment on.\" Malaysia has a close affinity with many Middle Eastern nations through their shared religion. Kashgari\'s lawyer in Malaysia, Mohammad Noor, told Reuters by telephone that he had obtained a court order to prevent the deportation, but had not been allowed to see his client. \"If the government of Malaysia deports him to Saudi Arabia, disrespecting the court order, this is clearly contempt of court, unlawful and unacceptable,\" he said. The Star newspaper quoted Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein as saying that Kashgari had been repatriated and that the charges against him would be decided by Saudi authorities. \"Malaysia has a longstanding arrangement by which individuals wanted by one country are extradited when detained by the other,\" he was quoted as saying. Kashgari later said in an interview that he was being made a \"scapegoat for a larger conflict\" over his comments. (World Bulletin)
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