Malaysia deports Saudi blogger despite fear of execution The Malaysian government should not be complicit in sealing Kashgari's fate by sending him back. Mr Kashgari's Twitter comments could not be verified because he later deleted them, but media reported that one of them reflected his contradictory views of the Prophet - that he both loved and hated him. Mr Kashgari later said in an interview that he was being made a "scapegoat for a larger conflict" over his comments. Mr Kashgari's lawyer in Malaysia, Mohammad Noor, said 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 Mr Kashgari had been repatriated and that the charges against him would be decided by Saudi authorities. "Malaysia has a long-standing arrangement by which individuals wanted by one country are extradited when detained by the other," he was quoted as saying. Blasphemy is a crime punishable by execution under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law. It is not a capital crime in Malaysia.