Thurssday October 5, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

King Abdullah of Jordan recently pardoned two Members of Parliament.
The pardoned Parliamentarians are Islamists.

One man had been convicted and sentenced for two years, the other for seven years.
The crime was glorifying Zarqawi, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq who was killed by the United States on June 7.
These two Members of Parliament had paid a visit to the Zarqawi family mourning tent and heralded him as a hero.
The charge was supporting an enemy of the state.

Convicting these two prominent Parliamentarians had sent a strong and loud message from the King to the masses in Jordan.
The message was that Al Qaeda is not welcome in Jordan.
But with the pardon the King has chosen to send a new message to the masses.

That new message frightens me.