A Saudi Arabian government official threatened to file a case against an unidentified Twitter user, who allegedly compared the death sentence handed to a Palestinian poet on Friday with the punitive measures of the militant group ISIS. Now, a number of Twitter users have shared their thoughts with the hashtag #SueMeSaudi.

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The newspaper Al-Riyadh cited an informant in the justice ministry explaining that "The justice ministry will sue the person who described... the sentencing of a man to death for apostasy as being 'ISIS-like'."

The Twitter user compared Saudi Arabia's execution of Ashraf Fayadh on grounds of apostasy (renunciation of his Muslim religion) and ISIS punishments. He was convicted for purportedly for "spreading atheism and disrespecting the prophet," according to The Express.

An uprising to create awareness is also brewing for blogger Raif Badawi, who has received 1000 lashes as punishment.

Following the threat by the unidentified Saudi official, human rights advocates in different parts of the world expressed their opinions on Twitter with hashtags #SaudiArabiaIsISIS and #SueMeSaudi. There have been more than 110,000 posts with the hashtag.

One tweet reads "Saudi Arabia says it'll sue people saying its justice 'system' is like #ISIS's. Beheading folk for apostasy etc means it is. So #SueMeSaudi."  Another person posted "The only difference between ISIS and Saudi Arabia is that ISIS don't have US support. So far. #SueMeSaudi"

Meanwhile, the Saudi government has denied any connections between the militant group. "Let me make it perfectly clear. The government of Saudi Arabia does not support or fund murderers who have collected under the banner of the Islamic State," Saudi Arabia's ambassador to UK Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud said. "Their ideology is not one that we recognise, or that would be recognised by the vast majority of Muslims around the world -  whether they are Sunni or Shia."

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