“The gunman was arrested at the scene has been identified as Riyad Ismail Abdullah, a 49-year-old imam who recently returned from making the Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.”
How did an imam, someone who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly, get the idea that he should murder people who are perceived as insulting Islam? Could what our leaders tell us about how Islam is entirely peaceful be false? Could such an injunction really be part of the religion?
More on this story. “Imam kills Christian writer charged over anti-Islam cartoon,” by Ajomole Helen, Naij.com, September 25, 2016:
Jordanian writer, Nahed Hattar was shot dead by a suspected Islamist gunman today Sunday, September 25th, outside the courtroom where he was due to stand trial for insulting Islam by sharing a cartoon on Facebook.
Hattar was arrested in August for sharing a cartoon on Facebook showing a bearded man in heaven smoking, lying in bed with women and calling on God to bring him wine and cashew. He captioned the cartoon which he deleted shortly after posting it:
“It mocks terrorists and their concept of God and heaven. It does not infringe God’s divinity in anyway”
Mr Hattar said the cartoon was intended to mock jihadists and their twisted interpretation of Islam but Jordan’s government charged him with insulting the faith and “provoking sectarian rifts”. The writer rejected the charges and planned to fight the case.
“I am mocking the terrorists and their conception of hell and heaven,” Mr Hattar wrote shortly before his death. “I’m not insulting the supreme Allah, at all, on the contrary, I’m against the type of God that the terrorists worship
The gunman was arrested at the scene has been identified as Riyad Ismail Abdullah, a 49-year-old imam who recently returned from making the Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
Mr Hattar’s family immediately blamed Jordan’s government for failing to protect the writer, saying the decision to publicly charge him with offending Islam had made him a target for Muslim extremists.
“We hold the Ministry of Interior responsible,” said Jamal Attar, a cousin. “This is the first assassination in Jordan that targets a person over nothing but his opinion, for freedom of speech. The prime minister was the first one who incited against Nahed when he ordered his arrest and put him on trial for sharing the cartoon.” the victim’s cousin Saad Hattar said….

P. Pratt says
I’m reminded of the 1984 slogan ‘War is Peace’. It is exactly what is being fed to us today. 290 million murdered, to date, by ‘the religion of peace’. Surreal.
Angemon says
A more cynical person might think that was their objective all along…
somehistory says
The ones who know the most about the book, the evil murderer and raper of children, and the false *god* they worship…the most devout…are the ones most likely to murder others. Their *god*…satan…is so weak and powerless that he cannot handle being insulted or ignored or to find that someone does not worship him. When he discovers that someone is poking fun, mocking, or telling the truth about him, he orders one of his devout children to commit murder.
Geronimo says
Come on man. If you believe in Satan you know he is the lord of the world, as it says in the bible. It is all a game to mislead people for him; islam, politics, evolution, humanism….even the christian church who hasnt followed the teachings of Jesus for almost 2000 years
John Marst says
What’s the difference between Islam and garbage?
Garbage won’t poison maggots.
utis says
Odd. I thought imams usually got a member of their bored, repressed, brainwashed congregation to do the dirty work. Exceptionless generalizations are hard to find, I guess.
Mark A says
It must be another case of mental illness. How else could an Imam get the idea Islam requires that people should be killed for insulting Islam?
Islam is, after all, a religion of peace.
On the other hand, can you imagine the outcry if any Christian clergy started killing people for insulting Christianity.
Sam says
It is the silence of infidels about Islam infuriates me. This evil cult called Islam gets away with murder and everything else. People dont want to talk about it but get killed by Islam and muslims everyday.
STRANGE!!!!
DM says
Allah is his name, KILLING is his game. His followers have been playing the same game relentlessly for 1400+ years. They kill each other, they kill the Kifar. They kill in the most savage ways possible. There is no end insight because Western Civilization for the most part refuses to grasp that islam is islam, not some faction that doesn’t understand the quran. They, all of islam, understands perfectly, that the quran charges them with killing ALL who do not agree with allah. They respond by killing for allah all the Kifars they can get to. They kill each other because of some imagined schism.
And the excuse will be as it ALWAYS, ALWAYS is “the radicals misinterpret islam”. It is so tiresome to hear the same God damned lies over & over & over again.
John Boston says
It is very clear, except to leftist losers, that the closer a man gets to the core of Islam, and the more closely he follows the path of Muhammad (sallalahu alaihe wa salam), the more likely he is to become a rapist, murderer, or terrorist.
Lucretius says
Jordan’s government wasn’t having it that Mr Hatter wasn’t mocking Islam’s god, because they know better, of course. And Mr Hatter shows a keenness of mind in his rebuttal of the charge in a way that can have a double meaning. When he says
“It mocks terrorists and their concept of God and heaven. It does not infringe God’s divinity in anyway”
and
“I am mocking the terrorists and their conception of hell and heaven,” Mr Hattar wrote shortly before his death. “I’m not insulting the supreme Allah, at all, on the contrary, I’m against the type of God that the terrorists worship”
he is quite possibly harboring the unspoken idea that he identifies the terrorists’ god with Islam’s. And that he is referring to Christianity’s God when he says “it does not infringe on God’s divinity” and “I’m not insulting the supreme Allah, at all, on the contrary, I’m against the type of God that the terrorists worship.” At least that’s what I’d like to think. He must’ve been a real card. He will be missed.
Robert says
…then again, what is ‘the supreme Allah’? An almost randomly chosen cruel moongod and his daughters. And then the supreme lost souls following him? What is supreme about that?
gravenimage says
Jordan: Murderer of Christian charged with insulting Islam was Muslim cleric
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This should surprise no one.
Catherine says
CTV News termed the killer a “former” Imam! I guess the implication is that a “current” imam would not have done this!
Paul Clark says
They have been murdering each other for 1400 years over the slightest provocation. They have murdered millions up millions of each other and non-Muslims. Nothing new. Standby. More mass murders will be coming to America soon. They will continue to murder you here at an even faster rate and our government will protect them as much as possible. They will demand that you do nothing that they declare insensitive to Islam. Your government will agree with them. They will sue you over the slightest mishap or mistake. Our government will encourage and support this. This is why I ask: Where are the Christians? Have they fled the cross. Pick up your cross and get out of your pews and help protect your brothers from being slaughtered. There are millions of you. Unite. You have power and strength, but are apathetic? Are you a member of the luke warm church, which Christ speaks? I hope not. Humanity needs you.
ich says
I cant imagine allowing myself to believe in Islam.
Its like he is the opposite of Jesus.
If there is a devil , and I believe there is -we know how hes working today.
Much craftier than a dude with horns.
Hes a professional deceiver no doubt.
Mubarak says
The headline obscures the issue: Islam is a universal insult to all of mankind.
Infidel says
I wonder if they would kill an American in the USA for posting this cartoon on their Facebook?
allah is not God! he says he has no sons.
God has a Son named Jesus.
That automatically disqualifies allah from being God, by his own words!