Source: Asia Times.
A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, state news agency Petra said. Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist who was a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was arrested last month after he shared a caricature that depicted a bearded man in heaven smoking in bed with women and asking God to bring him wine and cashews.It said the gunman was arrested at the scene.
Many conservative Muslim Jordanians considered Hattar’s move offensive and against their religion. The authorities said he violated the law by sharing the caricature.The state news agency quoted a security source as saying Hattar was killed by a man who fired three shots at him on the steps of the palace of justice in the Jordanian capital.“The assailant was arrested and investigations are ongoing,” Petra quoted the security source as saying.
Culprit needs examplary punishment. Hope King of Jordan will take note of it.
Now according to the Qur’an, this coward who shuns civilization, consulted Allah, accepted Allahs’ advice, left it to Allah (in his wisdom), and someone got shot, such is the wisdom of Allah. (I could not even pretend to be stupid enough to be a Sunni).