Ethics

Jordan Indicts Danish Cartoonist

By Ed Brayton

And several others for crimes of blasphemy over those infamous Mohammed cartoons. A newspaper out of Abu Dhabi reports on the indictment:

Jordan's general prosecutor is expected to issue a verdict within days in a defamation case brought by a coalition of media outlets against the editors of Danish newspapers who reprinted cartoons that lampooned the Prophet Mohammed and sparked fury in the Muslim world.

Lawyers representing the coalition, which also includes four members of parliament, have argued the editors violated international and Jordanian laws by reprinting the cartoons, one of which showed the prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).