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Writer Who Shared Cartoon Mocking ISIS Killed Outside Courthouse

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A prominent Jordanian writer facing charges for sharing a “blasphemous” anti-ISIS cartoon that outraged Muslim groups was fatally shot in Amman on Sunday, state news agency Petra reported.

Nahed Hattar, a member of the country’s Christian minority, was shot three times outside a courthouse in the capital where charges against him were being heard.
Public Security Department personnel, who were near the scene of the attack, rushed Hattar to a nearby hospital, but he died from his injuries, Petra reported.
The security forces arrested the attacker and an investigation is underway, Petra reported.

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Zimbabwen Sculptor Denies Mocking Mugabe

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A famous Zimbabwean sculptor has insisted his statue of Robert Mugabe was not intended to mock the president.

It was widely criticised on social media as a caricature after it was unveiled at his official residence State House on Friday.

Dominic Benhura told the state-run Herald newspaper that “honestly, no-one would abuse such an opportunity”.

Mr Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980, has vowed to crack down on protests against his rule.

Tweeters questioned the sculptors motives, with some suggesting it was a reaction to being forced to make the statue.

The sculptor Mr Benhura, who has exhibited his work across the world, denied he was making fun of the president and said that people don’t understand his art.

“That sculpture was never meant to look exactly as the president’s image. I do not do exact figures.”

“This is the style I have mastered. My collectors can identify my pieces when they see them anywhere in the world because I chose to be different and that is my signature.”

Mr Mugabe also praised the statue.

He was quoted in the Herald as saying that he was so grateful that the statue stimulated “a kind of wonder, a kind of love, a kind of appreciation and satisfaction”.

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“It’s My Hair”, Trump Slams White House For Mocking His Hair

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Donald Trump said Thursday that it was “disgusting” for the White House’s top spokesman to go after his hair while the US is facing such serious issues.

“Isn’t that disgusting for a presidential representative to make that comment?” Trump said during an interview on “Fox & Friends.”

“I assume he was joking,” the Republican presidential front-runner added.

Earlier this week, White House press secretary Josh Earnest blasted Trump for proposing to bar virtually all Muslims from entering the US until the “hatred” in the religion is figured out. Earnest said Trump had disqualified himself from the presidency — and he tossed in a comment about the billionaire’s “fake hair” when he trashed the proposal.

“The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin-of-history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair. The whole carnival-barker routine that we’ve seen for some time now,” Earnest said during his Tuesday media briefing.

Trump said on “Fox & Friends” that such an insult was beneath the White House amid terror threats overseas and other serious issues.

“For a presidential person representing us in such tough times — we have terrorism and all of the problems — for him to make that comment, I thought it was so ridiculous,” Trump said. “And you know I get kidded about that all the time and it’s fine. It doesn’t matter.”

Trump continued blasting away at President Barack Obama’s administration for its pattern of lying.

“But when you see, in these times, for a guy like that to make a false — by the way, to lie. He lied just like Obama lied about Obamacare. Just like they lie about so much. This administration’s one big lie,” Trump said.

He also assured Fox’s viewers that “it’s my hair.”

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Charlie Hebdo May Face Legal Action For Mocking Drowned Syrian Boy

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The controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo may face legal action for inciting hate crimes after publishing cartoons about drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi in its latest issue.

The first cartoon shows a clown and what appears to be the toddler with a sign: “Welcome immigrants, so close to his goal. Promotion: Two children for the price of one.”

https://twitter.com/Tayyxb/status/643485102421508096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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PDP Urges APC To Stop Mocking Nigerians

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency to stop mocking Nigerians with premature celebration of imaginary achievements.

The party in a statement on Thursday said it was embarrassing that the APC and aides of President Buhari decided to invade the minds of Nigerians with propaganda and tissues of lies instead of assisting the President to settle down and deliver his campaign promises to Nigerians.

The party’s  National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, who released the statement, said Nigerians were thoroughly embarrassed by the frivolous list of the so-called achievements of Buhari in three weeks.

The party noted that the frivolous list of the so-called achievements has further exposed APC’s lack of capacity and direction as well as the inability to draw a line between propaganda by an opposition party and disseminating of credible information as a party in government.

The party urged the APC to stop embarrassing the nation with premature and unsubstantiated celebration of imaginary achievements.

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