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They dispute about whether behavior that is deemed blasphemous amounts to a rejection of Islam, that is, apostasy.
In February 2012, a Saudi Arabian poet and journalist Hamza Kashgari, who had published three tweets of a would-be conversation with Muhammad, tried to leave Kuala Lumpur to seek political asylum in New Zealand in order to avoid apostasy or blasphemy charges and likely execution, and was detained by Malaysian authorities.
The last two of these, Taha and Foda, were killed in the wake of claims of apostasy, while most of the others have been accused of apostasy by traditional Islamic scholars.
Violating this law could potentially be considered apostasy from Islam: a crime punishable by death according to Qutbis.