"Muslims of the world be reasonable. What brings more prejudice
against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker
slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a
suicide
bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?"
--- Jihad Momani, editor of the Jordanian tabloid al-Shihan.
Momani's
paper published three of the Mohammed caricatures on the grounds
that
people should know what they were protesting about. For his
troubles,
Momani was fired, arrested twice, denied bail, and charged with
blasphemy by the government of King Abdullah II of Jordan. As of
Wednesday he was under arrest in a hospital...
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060206&s=forsyth021006
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