On February 4, the 23-year-old business administration graduate posted three tweets in which he imagined himself speaking directly with the founder of Islam.
"On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you’ve always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you," read his first tweet, translated here from the original Arabic.
"I shall not pray for you." One of Mr. Kashgari’s friends noticed the tweets when he woke up. As he rushed off to work, he said to himself, "I’m afraid for him," he recalls.
