Posted on 09/26/2016 10:21:14 AM PDT by marthemaria
A prominent Jordanian writer, who was on trial for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam, has been shot dead outside a court in Amman where he was due to appear.
Nahed Hattar, 56, was charged with inciting sectarian strife and insulting Islam after posting the cartoon on Facebook this year.
The cartoon, entitled The God of Daesh (Isis), depicted an Isis militant sitting next to two women and asking God to bring him a drink.
Hattar was arrested in August and released on bail early this month. On Sunday, he was shot in the head three times as he arrived for a hearing.
Hattar had insisted that he had not meant to insult Islam by posting the cartoon, but wanted to expose how Isis “envisions God and heaven”. He accused his Islamist opponents of using the cartoon to settle scores with him.
A controversial figure on the left of Jordanian politics, Hattar has faced charges before, including for insulting the country’s king, Abdullah II. He has also been a prominent supporter of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and advocated depriving Jordanians of Palestinian origin of their legal and civil rights.
Hattar’s murder is the latest in a series of recent violent incidents in Jordan, which until recently had avoided the worst of the jihadi-related violence that has affected some other Middle Eastern states even though several thousand of its citizens have crossed into neighbouring Syria to join Isis.
This story was already posted, but I don’t care.
And I already posted this, but I’m going to post it again:
ROP=RIP
“saves on taxpayer dollars for a trial.”
Another moderate country is about to collapse....(?)
ROP=RIP
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That’s a good one, post it at the bottom of all of your posts.
Seems like even in “moderate” Islamic countries Christians end up dead.
Ya know, we’re done.
Even IF there were such a thing as a “moderate muslim”, common sense and decency would lead a normal person with a brain and a conscience to abandon that “religion” after the ad infinitum murders in the name of their cult.
The normalizing of islam is an insult to humanity. Islamic belief is that of the criminality.
The moderates live in fear of the devout.
Devout heads explode at the sight of a cartoon.
What a religion!
All of Islam makes a cartoon of itself. Islam is as Islam does... Evil.
In the last days, men who kill you will think they do the will of God. Old warning to Christians, almost 2000 years old.
They settled out of court.
Short sharia trial.
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