Assassination of Jordanian Anti-Wahhabism Writer Condemned

 Nahed Hattar, a prominent Jordanian writer and journalist with anti-Zionism and anti-Wahhabism ideas was assassinated yesterday outside a courthouse in the Jordanian capital Amman.  

According to the Jordanian “Petra” news agency,  a 49 years old Jordanian gunman fired three shots at Hattar in front of the Palace of Justice in the Jordanian capital. It said the attacker was arrested and taken for investigation.

Hattar had notable national stances on the terrorist war in Syria. He stressed in his articles that Syria has been witnessing a foreign aggression launched by an alliance between western imperialism, reactionary Arab regimes and the Neo-Ottomanism with terrorism as a tool.

 He urged unified efforts to confront terrorism and repeatedly stressed that the United States, and the West in general, used takfiri terrorism as a main tool to implement their foreign agendas, prevent multipolarism and fighting the international and Russian bid to establish a multi-polar world order.

Hattar, 56, was critical to the Saudi wahhabi regime’s suspicious alliance with the Israeli enemy and its destructive role in the Arab region.

Hattar’s murder comes two weeks after he was released on bail and after he had been arrested in August for sharing a cartoon deemed as an insult to Islam on his facebook account.

The authorities accused the writer of violating law by sharing the cartoon.

However, Hattar, later, explained that he had not meant to disrespect God but rather to mock radicals and their perception of religion.

Iran condemns Hattar’s assassination

Iran expressed its condemnation of the assassination of the Jordanian writer, holding those who are not able to bear an “anti-Zionism and anti-Wahhabism” figure liable for his killing, according to Press TV.

“The responsibility of this assassination lies with those individuals who cannot tolerate the writings and opinions of this anti-Zionism and anti-Wahhabism author,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Monday.

“The spread of the wave of violence and terror is a direct outcome of incorrect policies and double-standard approaches by international political and media circles and of disgusting passivity in countering the ideological and political roots of Takfirism and violence,” the Iranian spokesperson added.

He called for immediate action to identify and bring to justice those who committed and commanded such a terrorist act.

Hamda Mustafa