A Stitch in Haste

Today's Religion of Peace oxymoron is: Jordanian Justice Act —

Eleven Danes have been summoned to appear before the Jordanian public prosecutor to answer charges of blasphemy and threatening the national peace. They include the cartoonist who drew one of the Mohammed cartoons and editors from 10 of the 17 newspapers that reprinted them.

The group behind the announcement is called The Prophet Unites Us, a union of Jordanian media organisations, organisations and private individuals.
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Osama al-Bettar, the group's lawyer, said that if the Danes do not appear, the next step will be to inform Interpol and seek their arrest.
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The case is being brought under changes made to the Jordanian Justice Act in 2006.

So now Islam's bloodthirsty goatherders actually imagine themselves to be the moral equivalent of Nuremberg or The Hague?

Besides the fact that any government that fails to recognize the inviolability of the natural right of free speech is per se illegitimate — and its "laws" on the topic are therefore summarily null and void — is the precedent principle that no jurisdiction may export its criminal laws into another jurisdiction. It's true among states in the U.S., and it's true among nations. All civilized societies understand, accept and even celebrate this basic tenet of jurisprudence.

But of course "Islam" and "civilized" rarely fit well in the same sentence.

I look forward to Interpol telling the Jordanian regime to kiss the free world's collective ass.

(Via Religion Clause. More on Jordan's retrogression into barbarism here.)