Palestinian atheist jailed for weeks apologizes

by Associated Press
Toronto Star
December 7, 2010

https://www.legal-project.org/948/palestinian-atheist-jailed-for-weeks-apologizes

Excerpt:

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian atheist jailed for more than a month for sharing his anti-Islam views on the Internet has apologized for offending Muslims, and a Palestinian military spokesman said he expected "positive" developments in the case.

Rights groups have criticized his arrest as a demonstration of the limits on free speech under the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, which has trawled Internet sites like Facebook as part of a crackdown on dissent and unpopular views.

The 26-year-old blogger, Walid Husayin — who had called the Muslim God a "primitive Bedouin" and Islam a religion of "irrationality and ignorance" — apologized in a letter to his family and to all Palestinians and sought forgiveness for what he called his "stupidity."

"I apologize for the offence I have caused against the monotheistic faiths, particularly Islam," the letter read.

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