A Saudi Arabian newspaper columnist wanted by the kingdom after he was accused of insulting Islam was arrested in Malaysia.

Police sources said that the Interpol have picked up the suspect as he landed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Wednesday.

The columnist, Hamza Kashgari outraged tens of thousands of Saudi Arabians after he posted an article that insulted Islam through social networking websites on a Prophet Muhammad's birthday commemoration last week.

Thousands of scholars, students and online users infuriated by the man's "open sacrilege" had filed cases against him, urging authorities to prosecute him.

Blasphemy is a crime punishable by execution under Saudi Arabia 's Islamic sharia law.

The Saudi Embassy in Kuala Lumpur said earlier it has yet to receive any official notification of Hamza's arrest.

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