【英语国际】沙特作家马来西亚被扣 祸起推特信息

Malaysian police detained a Saudi columnist who fled Saudi Arabia after his tweets about the Prophet Muhammad touched off public calls for his execution, Malaysia's state news agency reported on Thursday.

The writer, Hamza Kashgari, was detained on arrival on Wednesday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the Bernama news agency said, citing what it said were sources at Interpol.

Saudi Arabia was believed to be awaiting Mr. Kashgari's repatriation, according to Bernama. The Saudi government has made no official comment since announcing early in the week that Mr. Kashgari had been banned from writing for publication and would be subject to legal action.

Mr. Kashgari, a 23-year-old newspaper columnist from the coastal city of Jeddah, tweeted a series of musings on Saturday about an imagined meeting with the Prophet Muhammad.

Some religious conservatives in Saudi Arabia seized on the messages, describing them as a curse against the founder of Islam and calling for the public to demand punishment.

Campaigns in Saudi Arabia on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook drew thousands of supporters demanding Mr. Kashgari's execution. Some tweets included fatwas, or religious rulings, calling for Mr. Kashgari's death, despite his tweeted apologies.

Fearing for his safety, Mr. Kashgari left the kingdom sometime Monday or Tuesday, associates said.

Saudi newspapers later reported that King Abdullah had ordered Mr. Kashgari's arrest and an investigation.

The Malaysian report didn't make clear the legal grounds for the writer's detention. While some clerics this week said Mr. Kashgari's statements amounted to capital offenses under Saudi Arabia's Shariah law, at least one cleric called his words forgivable.

据马来西亚国家通讯社(Bernama)周四报道，该国警方扣留了沙特阿拉伯的专栏作家喀什葛里(Hamza Kashgari)。他在推特(Twitter)上有关先知穆罕默德(Prophet Muhammad)的话导致公众要求处决他，之后喀什葛里便逃离了沙特。

马来西亚国家通讯社援引国际刑警组织(Interpol)消息人士的话说，喀什葛里是在周三抵达吉隆坡国际机场时被扣留的。

据马来西亚国家通讯社报道，外界认为沙特正等待喀什葛里的遣返。沙特政府本周早些时候曾宣布，禁止喀什葛里为出版物写文章，并称他将承担法律责任。此后，沙特政府便没有做出任何官方评论。

今年23岁的喀什葛里是一位报纸专栏作家，生活在沙特的海滨城市吉达(Jeddah)。上周六，他在推特上发布了一系列有关冥思与先知穆罕默德举行假想会面的文字。

沙特一些宗教保守人士利用这些信息大做文章，说这是对伊斯兰教创始人的诅咒，呼吁民众要求当局惩罚喀什葛里。

有网民通过社交网站推特和Facebook以及视频网站YouTube在沙特国内发起请愿行动，吸引了数千名支持者，他们要求处决喀什葛里。尽管喀什葛里已发布推特信息致歉，但一些推特信息中仍出现了要求处死喀什葛里的宗教裁决。

与喀什葛里有往来的人说，因担心自身安全问题，他已于周一或周二离开了沙特。

沙特报纸后来报道说，阿卜杜拉国王(King Abdullah)已下令逮捕喀什葛里，并要求对此事展开调查。

马来西亚这篇报道并没有明确说明扣押喀什葛里的法律依据。虽然有一些伊斯兰教神职人员本周说，根据沙特的伊斯兰教法，喀什葛里可因他的言论被判死刑，不过至少有一位神职人员说，他的这些话可以被原谅。