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Charles Oliver | 8.24.2016 4:00 AM


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PM Hani Mulki
Jamal Nasrallah/EPA/Newscom

Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki has ordered an investigation of writer Nahed Hattar for violating a law against contempt of religion. Hattar shared on Facebook a cartoon depicting a bearded man in Heaven ordering God around. Hatter said it satirized the view Islamic terrorists have of Heaven and God and was not meant to mock God.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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