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4. Jordanian court supports imprisoning a poet who defamed Islam
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
The Jordanian Administrative Court supported a prison sentence handed down to Jordanian poet Musa Al-Hawamda by a lower court. Al-Hawamda is charged with defaming Islam in his poetic anthology titled “My Trees are Higher.”
3. Moussa Hawamda: Imams of mosques, tabloid newspapers and Muslim Brotherhood accused me of being a kafir [an unbeliever]
Date of source: Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Dr. Moussa Hawamda, a Jordanian poet, has become very famous in the last five years after the recent campaign against his collection of poems My Trees Are Higher issued in fall 1999. Moussa Hawamda who was brought before the Jordanian court five years ago and then sentenced to six months...
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