Jordan

Jordanian MP Yahya Al-Saud delivered a fiery speech at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Ramallah – the first PNC session in over two decades. "I am a slave to whoever teaches me the path of martyrdom," he said, and called Ahmad Jarrar, who gunned down an Israeli citize...

Sheikh Muhammad Yunus Al-Hunaity delivered a Friday sermon in which he criticized the call for women's rights, such as the right to work, to travel without a male guardian, or to make decisions about whether to give birth or to have sex with her husband. During the sermon, delive...

In a TV interview, Jordanian sociologist Muhammad Ayasrah said that "Judaism has been a hateful and racist religion throughout history" and that "the Jews are known to be the racists, or even the founders of racism in the world." Ayasrah, who was presented by Prime TV as the "Dir...

Jordanian TV host Dr. Bakr Al-Abadi said that in 1967, "the Zionist entity gathered all the rats carrying the Bubonic plague in Norway" and released them in Egypt, where they harm crops and children. He also said that they smuggled "chemical fertilizers and rotten seeds" into Egy...

Calling Israel a "plundering occupier," Jordanian Senator Sakher Dudin said that the nation could "have no greater enemy than the Zionist entity," but that "the average age of the Palestinian grandparent is 40 years" and "this ticking Palestinian demographic bomb will eventually ...

Imam Ahmad Al-Rawashdeh delivered a Friday sermon at the Old Tila' Al-Ali Mosque in Amman, Jordan, in which he said that "as long as they are dispersed, it is impossible to annihilate the Jews," but that Allah "informed us that He would gather the Jews in one place, so that they ...

Jordanian Senator Talal Abu-Gazaleh said, in a BBC Arabic TV interview, that the Arab Spring was not a movement for democracy. "What happened is that [the region entered] the 'Dark Ages' stage," he said, reminding the viewers of the Dark Ages of Europe. Abu-Gazaleh said that whil...

Jordanian Senator and Former Foreign Minister Kamel Abu Jaber said in a recent TV interview that "the disengagement was nothing but a political statement by the late King Hussein at a certain point in time, but by no means was it a political or religious disengagement from the Pa...

In a TV interview, Jordanian researcher Dr. Emad Hatabah defended secularism, saying that religion should have nothing to do with the state. The ruler cannot legislate laws on the basis of his personal religious convictions, said Hatabah, adding: "Secularism means that we should ...

During a debate filmed in a Jordanian TV studio, a victim of sexual harassment was heckled by panel member Mahmoud Al-Kharabshe, a lawyer and former member of the Jordanian parliament. A sexual harassment victim recounted that when she went to the police to file a complaint, the ...

Royal Jordanian pilot Captain Yousef Al-Hamlan Dajeh protested U.S. President Trump’s Jerusalem declaration by referring to the city as "the capital of the Palestinian state" while speaking to the passengers. His comments were recorded and posted online, where the video went vira...

Sheikh Bassam Al-Amoush, former Jordanian ambassador to Iran, said that missiles fired by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia were Iranian missiles. Warning about the role of Hizbullah in the region, he said: "Hassan Nasrallah is mightier than the Lebanese president, mightier than t...

During a Friday sermon at the Al-Zaytoonah University Mosque in Amman, Jordan, Dr. Ahmad Shahrouri berated the "fraudulent politicians" for "wasting a hundred years of the life of the Islamic nation." "Nothing will resolve the struggle but pure swords in humble hands," he said. T...

Jordanian MP Yahya Al-Saud, chairman of the Palestine Committee of the Jordanian Parliament, said that he was in favor of "both armed and peaceful" resistance and supported "martyrdom bombing operations" in Israel. Al-Saud was visiting Ramallah as part of a delegation of Jordania...

Professor Ahmad Nofal of the University of Jordan denounced, in his weekly Yarmouk TV show, the recent truck attack in Manhattan, adding that such attacks would not destroy America. America will "collapse from within," said Nofal, because it has "no moral values." "You call this ...

During a TV debate on conspiracy theories, Algerian political analyst Reda Boudraa said that great Arab and Muslim minds were "contemplating how to dismantle the global system" and that the notion of conspiracy should be used as a strategic weapon. We should "conspire against [th...

Palestinian-Jordanian historian Husni Ayesh said that ISIS and Al-Qaeda had developed from the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, "emerging from beneath its cloak." Speaking on Alghad TV on October 22, he said that the prevalence of the Islamist ideology stemmed from the people'...