• Journalists Arrested for Inserting Salt Bae Into the Last Supper
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http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/12/salt-bae-last-supper-jordan-arrests-journalists.html The fuck?
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/57926/8ac3ee30-a649-4a37-b71a-06788fb25c14/image.png *jordanian FBI shows up at my door*
that's a pretty chuckleworthy edit though
Before you all start pointing and laughing at how the Jordanian governmnent is taking a meme image so seriously, I'll ask you to have a quick reminder that you're probably posting from a developed country with a much larger freedom of religion. Jordan has a tiny Christian minority, with about 6% of the country being Christian. Controversially, the government has put in laws to protect against what they consider "hate speech", which prohibit statements that would "incite religious or sectarian strife". They find these laws necessary because isolated incidents of religious violence still happen. In 2016, the political writer Nahed Hattar posted a cartoon on social media that was seen as criticising Islam, and, despite apologising and taking it down, he was shot and killed by a radical Muslim preacher. Basically, this ruling is more or less the Jordanian government trying to play fair. They do not want a repeat of the highly publicised Nahed Hattar killing.
And with a dead meme no less! It's almost biblical.
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