Palestinian Authority Arrests Muslim 'Heretic' Under Threat of Life Imprisonment

By Andrew G. Bostom

We are repeatedly told -- despite all evidence to the contrary -- including its draft Sharia-based Constitution -- that the Judea-Samaria Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas is a "moderate" even, "secular" counterpart to the Hamas Islamic fundamentalist regime which controls Gaza.

This absurd propaganda was debunked once again earlier today, Thursday 11/11/10.

Qalqiliya resident Walid Husayin -- the 26-year-old son of a Muslim scholar -- was captured after a "Facebook sting operation" by Palestinian intelligence officials garnered snapshots of his Facebook pages. Apparently this has become a routine, "state-of-the-art" method for imposing Sharia-based Islamic totalitarianism in the Arab Muslim Middle East.

Described as a "quiet man who prayed with his family each Friday and spent his evenings working in his father's barbershop," Husayin was reportedly posting clandestine remarks, which insulted "the divine essence" of Islam, the religion of peace and tolerance. Abdul-Latif Dahoud, a 35-year-old Qalqiliya resident, voiced the preponderant local sentiment regarding apt "punishment," for Mr. Husayin's offense, i.e., public execution:

He should be burned to death...to be an example to others

And the hapless Mr. Husayin's family expressed great sympathy for their kin by proclaiming he merely deserved life imprisonment -- the current "official" legal punishment should he avoid murder for "apostasy" by one of his co-religionists, with Sharia-sanctioned impunity for the murderer.

The tragic irony is that Walid Husayin's "criminal" words are pathognomonic of what poisons Islam, past as prologue to the ugly present. He is accused of having stated that Allah has the attributes of a "primitive Bedouin," and maintaining that Islam is a,