Most would expect that an offensive cartoon depicting the Islamic State would only land a cartoonist in jail in territory ruled by the Islamic State itself. But this happened in Jordan, a country described as becoming increasingly “extremist.”
Of course, the coverage of this incident focuses on the cartoon’s depiction of Allah as being its offensive aspect. But its opposition to the Islamic State could have had something to do with this sentence as well. There is significant support for the Islamic State in Jordan. Jordan’s “moderate” king has threatened to confront Israel over giving Jews the right to pray on the Temple Mount, and a shocking report was released last January by the Jewish Press entitled “Jordan’s King Supports ISIS; YES, You Did Read This Right!”
“Jordanian cartoonist jailed for “offensive” anti-Daesh cartoon”, Albawaba (Thanks to Religion of Peace), August 15, 2016:
Jordanian cartoonist and political satirist Nahed Hattar recently turned himself into the police after a warrant was issued for his arrest this weekend, Jordanian news sources have reported.
This comes after he published a cartoon on his Facebook page lambasting Daesh (ISIS), and how they “envision heaven”. The cartoon shows the inside of a tent with a member of Daesh flanked by two women in bed with God peeking in through the tent’s opening. When God asks if the Daesh member needs anything, he replies that he’d like a beer, then the Daesh member repurposes several Islamic phrases from the 3rd person to the 2nd person in a mocking manner.
Almost immediately after posting, the controversy started with social media users infuriated by the depiction of God and Hattar’s indelicacy with the subject matter.
Hattar, a Jordanian Christian and self-described non-believer, is not a stranger to controversy. He was has previously come under fire for both being insensitive to religious views and for striking up ethnic differences – Hattar is a strong supporter of restricting Jordanians of Palestinian descent certain rights and privileges, a taboo topic in the ethnically-split Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan….

Baconator says
Cartoons and Islam don’t mix – like oil and water, or more appropriately, oil and pee.
Carolyne says
That’s too funny.
abbas says
Daesh flanked by two women in bed with God peeking in through the tent’s opening.
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he got it completely wrong
it should be a American white devil who has blood sucking , mind controlling tumor ( Israel Jew lobby) on his back peeking through tent and asking for any thing else to his created monster !!!!!
the whole middle east region was peaceful and thriving before 1948 when Israel founded by greedy Jews under colonizer devil Britten . after 1948 whole region is bleeding increasingly with every passing year. whole west specially Satan USA is playing in hands of Jesus ( a.s) theoretical killer evil Jews . why Saudi are USA ally ?? because Saudi king was first to sign treaty in 1922 for approval of Israel on the condition that USA + UK will support his dictatorship and will ignore / support his human rights abuses as they ignore Israel s’ human rights violations
USA lobbied against , Iraq , Libya , Syria etc… and attacked , ruined the lives and future of millions of innocent peoples just to keep region unstable so that no strong country or army should exist near Israel to challenge its occupation + nonstop killings .
USA deliberately made Isis and gave it unlimited supply of weapons and money to kill Muslims , keep region unstable for Israel , defame Islam in world and keep its world largest arm producing + selling businesses running
Angemon says
That’s nice, sweetie. No go take your nap, and don’t forget to look under the bed and inside the closet for Americans and/or Jews – that they’re living rent-free in your mind is obvious, but they might be in other places too.
Allan says
Interesting rant, but don’t you think that your forgot a few details?
For example, according to Islam, God’s will is in control. This means that no “American white devil” is responsible for the suffering in the middle East. True, some nonmuslims are suffering, but that must be blamed on Islam’s toxic effect upon culture and society, as when Muslims harass, attack, assault, batter, rob, and murder Yazidis.
You are also mistaken about “Satan USA”. Informed people understand the the USA is controlled by the bipartisan mafia, neocons, sundry billionaires like Soros, and so on. So, you meant, or should have meant, ‘Satan bipartisan mafia, neocons, et al.’. Of course, since in Islam God is in control, you meant, or should have meant, ‘Satan God’.
If you pray, please ask God to kill Satan. We’ve had far too much of his troublemaking and would like to get on with the difficult work of building civilization and community without more interference from Satan God.
IQ al Rassooli says
abbas
As a Muslim, you cannot possibly have TWO brain cells of logic when dealing with the subjects of Beliefs, Politics or History.
As a Muslim, you are beneath CONTEMPT just like your Dissolute, Debauched, Depraved, Disgusting mentor Muhammad bin Abd Allah
Because Muslims are the LEAST Productive, Inventive or Creative in human history, they have no choice but to be in DENIAL thus blaming all their shortcomings and self inflicted disasters on everyone else especially JEWS!
All of Ummat Muhammad (1.5 billion Muslims) are the most DYSFUNCTIONAL people on Earth who should NEVER be allowed anywhere outside Dar al Islam. You are PARASITES who live OFF the products and hard work of OTHERS
Before 1948, the Arabs were in fact LESS useless than they are now. In fact without OIL no one would have had any inkling that Arabs exist
The more you comment, the more you PROVE how utterly STUPID Muslims are
Please do us all a favour and return to the gutter you live in and keep Jihad Watch CLEAN!
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
gravenimage says
The brainless abbas wrote:
Daesh flanked by two women in bed with God peeking in through the tent’s opening.
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he got it completely wrong
it should be a American white devil who has blood sucking , mind controlling tumor ( Israel Jew lobby) on his back peeking through tent and asking for any thing else to his created monster !!!!!
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Since the figure in the cartoon is Allah, does this mean that abbas believes that Allah is an “American white devil” controlled by the Israeli lobby?
What would his fellow Muslims say about such a conception?
More:
the whole middle east region was peaceful and thriving before 1948 when Israel founded by greedy Jews under colonizer devil Britten (sic) . after 1948 whole region is bleeding increasingly with every passing year.
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The places was an arid, neglected hellhole before teh rise of vibrant Israel. And the only reason the region is bleeding is because of the Jihad being waged by abbas’ own coreligionists.
More:
whole west specially Satan USA is playing in hands of Jesus ( a.s) theoretical killer evil Jews …
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abbas is not referring to “Jesus”, but to the vicious Islamic figure “Isa”, whose role in the Last Days is to murder Jews and Christians.
More:
USA lobbied against , Iraq , Libya , Syria etc… and attacked , ruined the lives and future of millions of innocent peoples just to keep region unstable so that no strong country or army should exist near Israel to challenge its occupation + nonstop killings
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What crap. It is Muslims who are butchering other Muslims throughout the region, just as they always have.
More:
USA deliberately made Isis and gave it unlimited supply of weapons and money to kill Muslims , keep region unstable for Israel , defame Islam in world and keep its world largest arm producing + selling businesses running
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What crap. Does abbas actually disagree with ISIS on the establishment of the Caliphate, on crucifying those who run afoul of Ramadan fasting, on slaughtering Christians and Yezidis, on using them as sex slaves? I doubt it. He just wants to see his own faction running the bloody show.
Eirene says
WTF??????!!!!!!
kessler says
yet another example of how the notion that Islam promotes peace and tolerance doesn’t fit with Islamic Law. It does not tolerate the much needed scrutiny, satire and mocking which Christianity went through in order to step out of the dark ages.
Did any of you ever ask a lefty or muslims: If Islam teaches peace and tolerance, how come Islamic Law/Sharia law persecutes non-muslims, punishes homosexuals/apostates/adulterers/blasphemers.
Is Sharia law not Islamic?
They have no answer to that and will just call you an islamophobe
Georg says
This brings to mind all those Muslim protests against IS that have never happened.
Angemon says
Two words: Black September.
Allan says
Well, OK, Islam condemns anthropomorphic representations of God. So I can see why some thin skinned people would throw a temper tantrum about the cartoon.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GbB8nQqbAaY/V69hZtpHxaI/AAAAAAAAHt0/RDjiQNgv0OcMx9xSatqxii-d96MUjAE2gCLcB/s320/image001.jpeg
gravenimage says
Thanks for posting a link to the cartoon.
I think the objection is as much for Hattar daring to criticize ISIS as for depicting “Allah”, though.
Carolyne says
Is that God? It looks like Santa Claus.
Tommy says
moo HAM id ;/
Jay Boo says
Insult to Islam?
abbas says
.I think that a Jewish Palestine must become a war aim for America… Letter of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionist leader to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court, dated January 14, 1918
We told the authorities in London; w e will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you want us there or not. …You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world. Dr. Chaim Weizmann in ‘Judische Rundschau’, No. 4, 1920, Germany
In the wake of Kristallnacht, New York Senator Wagner introduced legislation to allow 20,000 German Jewish children into the United States. Rabbi Stephen Wise testified before the legislation committee: If there is any conflict between our duty to those children and our duty to our country,
our country comes first; and if children cannot he helped, they cannot be helped .
The compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the projected Jewish state …
we have to stick to this conclusion the same way we grabbed the Balfour Declaration , more than that, the same way we grabbed at Zionism itself.
First Prime Minister of Israel, Ben-Gurion in his diary, 1937, Masalha 1992, p. 210
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. … The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. … (Muslims are) yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags. Ze’ev Jabotinsky in a letter to one of his Revisionist colleagues in the United States, dated November 1939, ‘Expulsion of the Palestinians’ p. 29, by Nur Masalha
The state of Israel must invent dangers, and to do this, it must adopt the methods of provocation and revenge. … And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and aqcuire our space. From the diary of Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister from 1948-1956 and Prime Minister from 1954-1956
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(The Jewish state stretches) from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates. Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, Herzl 1960, p. 711
Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever. Irgun proclamation against partition, quoted by Menachem Begin in The Revolt: Story of the Irgun, p.335.
Thus the whole people Israel in the form of the elect of the nation gradually became the Messiah of the world, the redeemer of mankind. Joseph Klausner, in his book The Messianic Idea in Israel
God is absorbed in the nationalism of Israel.
Rabbi Solomon Goldman, In his book God and Israel
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist. Fourth Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, in a statement to The Sunday Times, June 15, 1969
Israel is the Jews land – not a land of Jews. It may have, at one time, been a land of Arabs, but it was never an Arab land. Israel was the Jews land even when no Jews resided in it.
It was never the Arabs land, even when virtually all its inhabitants were Arab. Israel belongs to four million Russion Jews despite the fact that they were not born here.
It is the land of nine million other Jews throughout the world, even if they have no present plans to live in it. Dr. Israel Eldad, The Times of Israel, August 29, 1969
In our country there is room only for the Jews. We shall say to the Arabs: Get out! If they don’t agree, if they resist, we shall drive them out by force. Former Minister of Education and Culture, Professor Ben-Zion Dinur, 1954
After the Palmach men left (Deir Yassin), the men of the (Irgun and Stern Gang) started a shameful massacre of the inhabitants
… (the massacre) was carried out … when the village was in Jewish hands, and without the inhabitants having taken any provocative action . Meir Pa’il, official Haganah observer on the scene, Yediot Ahranot, April 29, 1972
All of the killed, with very few exceptions, were old men, women or children. The dead we found were all unjust victims, and none of them had died with a weapon in their hands.
Eliyahu Arieli, Haganah member who arrived at Deir Yassin shortly after the massacre, O Jerusalem, Collins and Lapierre, 1972
Because we took the land this gives us the image of being bad, of being aggressive. The Jews always considered that the land belonged to them, but in fact it belonged to the Arabs. I would go further: I would say the original source of this conflict lies with Israel, with the Jews — and you can quote me. Yehoshofat Harkabi, former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence, in “Peace Won’t be a Plane Ticket to Cairo,” International Armed Forces Journal, October 1973, p.30.
gravenimage says
More spam from abbas:
.I think that a Jewish Palestine must become a war aim for America…
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abbas cribbed his entire post from this antisemitic site:
http://theevilofzionismexposedbyjews.weebly.com/11-what-zionist-and-anti-zionist-jews-have-said-about-israel.html
Bizarrely, this site uses the hopeful image of a Jewish man nurturing a seedling–they were probably too witless to realize that that is *actually a positive thing*.
Under “about this website” we learn that their main concern is Israel attacking Iran. Never mind what absurd projection this is–it is Iran that has threatened to “Wipe Israel Off the Map”.
They claim Israel plans to enslave people, though she is a democratic state with equal rights. It is, instead, abbas’ own coreligionists who are, quite literally, enslaving their victims.
More:
In the wake of Kristallnacht, New York Senator Wagner introduced legislation to allow 20,000 German Jewish children into the United States.
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Here the vicious abbas is slamming the United States for *saving children from the Holocaust*.
And why not? abbas has quoted pro-Nazi and pro-Holocaust material before. This site characterizes saving children as *evil*. *Ugh*.
And never mind that this article has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel, in any case.
Does abbas have any problem with Jordan imprisoning a cartoonist for daring to criticize the sanguinary Islamic State? It sure doesn’t look like it…
IQ al Rassooli says
grapevine
Have you noticed how abbas NEVER addresses anything JW readers send him based entirely on facts? NEVER!
NEVER ever expect any Muslim to debate in any logical, rational or meaningful manner
Muslims are the ‘BEST’ at Rape, Slaughter, Murder, Plunder (Sura 8 called ANFAL meaning PLUNDER), Enslavement and utter STUPIDITY. That is WHY $100,000 challenge that I have had for over 12 years to NAME only Ten Muslims who have contributed anything to the Advancement and Betterment of humanity in any field possible in the last 600 years without losing a dime (out of 2000,000,000 misfits!)
abbas, can you name them?
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
gravenimage says
I don’t expect a reply from abbas, IQ al Rassooli. I counter his vicious bullsh*t for the benefit of other interested readers here, not because I expect it to effect this nasty Muslim troll.
Bezelel says
https://youtu.be/vXMgYb9-3tI 11min video that makes your argument sort of less than truthful.
Kiel says
Abbas’s rabbles just show that rational arguments don’t bite on him. He’s a muzzie troll all right probably with the typical IQ average of 87. A moronic inbreeding bastard.
Champ says
87?! Go lower; much lower …
salim says
I am very familiar with the Jordanians and Jordan, which I visit regularly every year. I have been worried about that country for many years. The Islamists enjoy dominance on all media and mosques. Most people are radicalised to the core. You hire a taxi and find, almost certainly, the radio broadcasting an islamic topic by an Islamist. The Muslim brotherhood is very powerful in Jordan.
Unlike Egypt, Iraq and even Saudi Arabia, the number of Jordanians who leave Islam is close to none. When I socialise with Jordanians, I always steer the conversations to hear what the Jordanians think about various religious and political issues and they are extremist views.
The interesting thing is that Jordan is often praised as an island of stability in the region, which is true in the way of North Korea’s stability.
t. says
A very informing comment! Thanks, salim.
Paulina says
Twenty years ago my old co-worker (a Catholic) from Mexico married a man from Jordan. They named their only son Jihad. He (the husband) was not that religious. He smoked and drank alcohol but insisted on naming his son Jihad.
gravenimage says
Jordanian cartoonist jailed for “offensive” anti-Islamic State cartoon
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Support for the sanguinary Islamic State from supposedly “moderate” Jordan.
Have they forgotten the Jordanian pilot burned to death there? More likely since ISIS is so Islamic they just do not care. We have seen this before in places like Pakistan, where Muslims cannot really criticize Jihadists, even if they are murdering them.
And more general crushing of freedom of speech in Dar-al-Islam.
And the victim is a Christian Atheist. This may objectively make no sense, but for Muslims it just makes him doubly an “unbeliever”. Not only is this sentence grotesque, but I also worry about what will happen to Hattar in prison.
Cynthia says
I try not to hate.. Really I do. But I do hate the mentality of Jordan. Please know that Islam is a political system…a way of life. Never have I seen such evil…jealousy… Hypocritical mentality. Thank God I got out. I would have never known about this mentality if I had not gone there. Now the temple mount is under Jordanian custodianship… FOR NOW. I don’t see the Jewish putting up with that for long. I will just say that I will be nice or the try to but NEVER TRUST AN ARAB.
gravenimage says
This is not about Arabs. Many Christian Arabs are very decent people. This is about *Islam*.
Michael says
An excellent and necessary clarification. Also, there were many thriving Arab Christian communities over 500 years before islam was ever concocted.
Cynthia says
Okay I will not be nice about it… I understand we are talking about Islam… Islam is not a religion it’s a political system as I stated earlier. They would love for it to be a completely religious issue so they can use our constitution against us… did I not make myself clear? My statement stands… Every Jordanian which we are speaking of was raised in a school which forced the Quran on them so you can think of the ramifications of what was planted in their minds. They have a king which they would kiss his behind if he walk down the street they also have double standards and they live under Sharia law which disrespects women. I believe I made myself clear when I was speaking of the Jordanian mentality however I wouldn’t trust any of the Arab world. Now that Iran has nuclear weapons and is aiming all of them at Israel why do you think Saudi Arabia is getting close to Israel?? Could it be that we have newly discovered oil reserves over there and they might need their help from Iran?? Russia sending out planes from Iran to bomb Syria… Go figure go figure. Nope I wouldn’t trust none of them if you’re raised in Shariah if your raised in the Quran you believe in taqqiya. Also a little off the subject… I wonder what they say when they’re blowing up each other… Allahu Akbar? Also this incident of this Jordanian which that’s what we’re talking about…. Just goes to show you that you can trust and Arab. I know when the Jordanian pilot died… He was their son of Jordan. Jordan was really mad about that. Heck I was mad about that. But they don’t really have any any loyalty to each other… Again when the Muslims did that to the pilot did they scream Allahu Akbar? Nope… They were raised under an ideology belief system which is political and it is called is islam and it is bloody and it is nasty and it is dishonest and we’re not talking about Arab Christians that lived there for five hundred years ago we’re talking about right now.
Allan says
The Israelis will bide their time until attacks from Jordan provide them with a license for overwhelming counterattack. I would expect them to brush the Jordanians back a considerable distance, >50 miles. Of couse, Amman is scarcely 20 from the river.
P.S. “Arab” not= “Muslim”
abbas says
to. IQ al Rassooli
The atomic bomb ws built by non-Christian, non-American scientists like Mohammed Raziuddin Siddiqui, Chien-Shiung Wu. The scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project are non-Christian and non-American. Qian Xuesen helped built America’s missile program.
Not low IQ Americans.
http://www.islamawareness.net/Science/muslims_contributions.html
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few of very famous Muslim contributors names are below
AL-RAZI (RHAZES)
(864-930 C.E.)
ABU’L WALEED MUHAMMAD IBN RUSHD (AVERROES)
(1128-1198 C.E.)
ABU ALI HASAN IBN AL-HAITHAM (ALHAZEN)
(965-1040 C.E.)
ABU RAIHAN AL-BIRUNI
(973-1048 C.E.
IBN CINA (AVECENNA)
(980-1037 C.E.)
JABIR IBN HAIYAN (JEBBER)
(BORN 1190 A.D.)
IBN ABBAS ZAHRAWI
(936-1013 C.E.)
ABU AL-NASR AL-FARABI
(870-950 C.E.)
IBN AL-BAITAR
(DIED 1248 A.D.)
ABU ABDULLAH AL-BATANI
(858-929 A.D.)
ALI IBN RABBAN AL-TABARI
(838-870 A.D.)
NASEER AL-DIN AL-TUSI
(1201-1274 A.D.)
to see details of their achievements and contributions in science and technology search online.
http://www.cssforum.com.pk/css-compulsory-subjects/general-science-ability/29544-great-muslim-scientists-their-contributions-field-science.html
IQ al Rassooli says
abbas
Once more you are first AVOIDING my challenge (I said in the last 600 years!)
Secondly, actually (because I am IRAQI) I studied most of those you listed and found out that according to the Arabic sources NOT a SINGLE one of them was a Fundamentalist Muslim (invariably brain dead) because they were THINKERS and many of them were accused of ‘secularism’ during or after they were dead
100% guarantee that not a single Fundamentalist Muslim can have TWO brain cells of logic
By the way, 90% of the most important contributors to the theory and manufacture of the Atomic bomb were JEWS many of them from NAZI occupied Europe (which of course you conveniently ignored)
No Arabs and No Muslims
You will NEVER be able to DECEIVE anyone at Jihad Watch! NEVER! Because Muslims are too stupid to achieve such a goal
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Carolyne says
Oh Abbas. You’re so funny. Is that a recipe for some Arab dish?
Mike says
Now, the cartoonist, he’s what I’d consider a true refugee, if he showed up in Europe.
Just sayin’…
Kiel says
This particular incident involving a cartoonist and the overall picture of radicalization in these Arab countries usually held as our “allies” shows the necessity of the civilized word barren off Islamic held territories.
Destroying an idea or every Quran in the World is impossible. And as with Nazism and Communism, Islam will always be in the history books.
But, if criminalized Worldwide, this would exclude tenacious resisting Muslims from society, forcing them to live as animals in caves. Not even their patriarch bin Laden could stand that for very long, hence the 38,000 square-foot walled Abbottabad compound, complete with electricity, plumbing, toilets, TV, and the Internet. We must ally with Israel, UK, France, India, China, and Russia, then drop one nuke on a random Muslim target every three days until all Muslim sovereignties Worldwide criminalize Islam. Every Muslim government criminalizing Islam comes off the target list, getting to keep their power and territory. The Muslims would get on board with the program real quick.
Muslim governments who resist watch their cities get vaped one at a time until they lose the will to resist. Then the Allies divide up their territory, install our own governments, and exploit their resources for ourselves.
In exchange for Russia helping us destroy Islam and Iranian leadership, we let Putin annex Iran and its resources for Russia. His desire to have all that strategic Persian Gulf warm water access, oil-rich territory for his Motherland’s empire far exceeds any superficial loyalty he may feel toward the Ayatollah. Much better for Russia to control Iran rather than crazy Muslims bent on killing us.
Similarly, we could offer China incentives to ally with us to destroy Islam. Good Lord, they want extra territory so badly they’re building their own islands from scratch in the ocean.