A Jordanian gunman on Monday shot at a group of foreign tourists visiting the Roman Amphitheater in Jordan’s capital, killing a British man and wounding six other people including a Jordanian police officer, Interior Minister Eid al-Fayez said.
Police overtook the gunman at the scene and arrested him, said government spokesman Nasser Judeh. Al-Fayez said the casualties included the British man who died, plus two other wounded Britons and the Jordanian police officer. In addition, one Dutch, one Australian and one New Zealander tourist were all wounded. Source: [Associated Press]
It really is disheartening to see this happen in Jordan. In addition to the brutal killing of an innocent tourist and the injuring of others — including one Jordanin police officer — this cold-blooded murderer has most certainly dealt the Jordanian tourism industry a harsh blow.
My most sincere condolences go out to the family of the British tourist. Regardless of this brutal incident, I wholeheartedly believe that Jordan will remain one of the safest places in the region.
How come, then, on the 5th Sep 11 anniversary that Aljazeera survey on 41000 people shows that 49.9 % g3irr support Bin Laden ?
I do not believe that Islam is a religion of hate and violence. That said, there are those fundamentalist, religious extremists who give Islam a bad name. This is true of all religions, when hatred and intolerance are preached. Unfortunately, there are too many religious leaders in the Arab world who are doing just that and fanning hatred and violence. It is an indisputabel fact. SandMonkey wrote about that just a few weeks ago, and described what he heard at his own neighborhood mosque. This fanaticism does not benefit anyone. What the rest of us can do is condemn this acts and this kind of “religious instruction”. In my opinion, criminal acts are a form of terrorism. I lived in New Orleans (US) during the 1980s. Crime was so severe that everyone lived in fear, and that fear was realistic. I left because I could no longer endure the stress. It is the same with any form of terrorism. It creates paranoia, fear, destroys peace between nations, and ruins everything in general. It should not be tolerated anywhere. Jordan is one of the most stable countries in the region, and I imagine that Jordanian leaders will discourage in the strongest way possible future attacks. It will hurt your tourism, the businesses that might consider locating there, and will effect the lives of the good people in Jordan in a negative way. I hope it can be effectively stopped and soon!
John Kactuz.
by you colling islam hate religion,is hate crime so that dos not make you any different from the killer.
John Kactuz you say that “Islam is a religion of hate, anger and violence. ”
Not fair dude. I mean in one full swoop you slaugghtered hundreds of lebanese women and children just a few weks ago. and guess who paid for your bombs? USA!
I mean, so called Islamic violence is crude and photogenic. But the genocide in Iraq which killed over half a million babies is not photogenic because those babies died a silent deaths and you call their murder an acceptable price. imagine for half a million arab children to die because they can’t basic medicines that were banned by your “sanctions”.
Dude, did you forget the inquisition, crusades, genocide against the natives, colonialism, holocust, nuking of hiroshima and nagazaki, palestine, iraq. you sick twisted people all you do is cause massive damage to helpless people then sit back and enjoy the crude backlash, using it as retroactive rationalization. sick people you are. even of you add all the terror crimes committed by muslim extremists they won’t add up to a small fraction of what you did in palestine and iraq. you are a sick, blood thirsty people. totally incapable of self-reflection.
So, blame it on America and Israel. Blame it on Jordan. Blame it on everything but the force that makes people kill, torture, persecite and plunder.
Does not the fact that the man yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he killed and tried to kill give you a clue?
Think real hard. What could it be? Take a wild guess.
Islam is a religion of hate, anger and violence. Where it goes it takes all of these with it.
Yet Muslims are either in denial (the good ones) or are dishonest (the bad ones). They refuse to see the simple obvious truth. Let’s see, today more terror arrests in Denmark. Who could it be? Those darn Hindus are at it again. What else? Women no longer have access to Islam’s holiest site. How typical! How Muslim. Of course, it is for their own good – they will have more space and they can see the Kaaba from 200 meters away. Of course, Islam respects women.
Once again, I would like to know why Muslims cannot be honest about Islam and its prophet? Doesn’t the fact that the Quran is filled with hate towards non_Muslims tell you anything? Doesn’t the fact that the hadiths describe so many horrible deeds done by Mohammed (Murder, torture, rape, slavery, plunder, even wife-beating) offer a clue about this religion? Don’t blame me, I didn’t write them. These things are in the Quran and hadiths, and maybe, just maybe they explain the vile actions of Muslims and the sad state of Islamic societies.
Or you can always blame America and Israel.
John Kactuz
well, it’s sad.. as if the economics are high
This incident really pisses me off. First, you have this criminal who goes and decides to kill these innocent bystanders while shouting God’s name. Allahu Akbar 3alaik ya akhi, ya jahel!
Second, you have our interior minister, who immediately had this to say:
“It is not clear to us whether this man had any accomplices, but what is certain is that this was an act of terrorism, and we will consider it as such until proven otherwise.”
This just after 1 week of approving the anti-terror legislation in Jordan’s parliament. The anti-terrorism law received its share of controversy, but I and many others really believed it was a good well written piece of legislation that layed down a clear definition of what is an act of terror, and what do we learn just one week after it? That our interior ministry is still willing to dub incidents acts of terrorism before any investigation takes place. And “until proven otherwise”? Does this mean our government is gonna start treating terror suspects as “guilty until proven innocent”?
I believe this incident was a hate crime, but not a terrorist act. I believe a terrorist group could have carried out the same attack and it would have ended up the same way, but it has already been made public that the results of preliminary investigation showed that this was an isolated individual act and I believe it lacked the elements of a terrorist attack, especially as defined by our new anti-terror law.
Regardless of that, this person is a criminal, I hope he gets what he deserves. I just feel sorry for the one person who had to die for this idiot’s actions.