repression in Saudi Arabia

"Earlier this year, when a young Saudi poet and columnist named Hamza Kashgari wrote three Twitter postings that seemed to criticize the Prophet Muhammad, the Saudi Twittersphere was full of calls for his arrest and prosecution, even as Western liberals urged clemency."  No, no one called for clemency.  Saudi liberals and religious fanatics competed in calling for stiffer punishment.   And who are the Western liberals who championed this case? Which Western liberal spoke on his behalf? Who?