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Jordan Arrests Journalists over 'Offensive' Jesus Image
« on: December 10, 2018, 10:09:37 pm »
The article reads that the man in the sunglasses is a well-known Turkish chef doing his trademark, tossing of salt on the food.

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Jordan Arrests Journalists over 'Offensive' Jesus Image
by Naharnet Newsdesk



Jordan on Monday arrested a publisher and an editor at a news website over an image of Jesus deemed "offensive" to Christians, a judicial source said.

Mohammed al-Wakeel, who runs the Al Wakeel News website, was accused along with an editor of inciting sectarian strife, a charge that could land them in jail for between six months and three years.

The website had earlier published a retouched version of Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century mural painting of "The Last Supper" that sparked widespread controversy on social media.

Read more at: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/254068-jordan-arrests-journalists-over-offensive-jesus-image

Read article for more details. This really, seems rather harmless to what goes on in the West but let those people run their country and we can run ours.