On March, 04, 2008 11:05 PM , Mohanned
from United States said:

My guess is that it played well for both the govenrment and the prominent christian sects in jordan. The government was afraid that their missionary activities became so obvious that they might become targets for extremists, and the death of one of those will create a media storm all over the west and especially in the US of A.

The local churches also saw the evangelical activities as a threat to their existense where they might loose some of their followers, and we all know the sensitivities amongst different churches.

So I gues it played well for both the govrnment and the local churchs.

Batir, a friend showed me an article mentioning comments by Jordanian Evanelicals Dr. Imad Shehadi Dr. Nabih Abassi and in the Arabic paper "Issijil" from February 28.

On March, 22, 2008 6:36 PM , nasifmasad
from Chile said:

There are different evangelical sects, some of them work clearly and directly to destroy the christian faith with invented paractices through the canalisation of the Christianty into pre-christian or post-christian teachings. In the western societies no one cares, however, in the Islamic societies, Christians have the same caracteristics of the solidity of the Islam, they hate to see someone with a "Bad Religion" or "Satanist" T-shirt, They consider talking in toungues humiliation for those how practice it and for the whole christianity. Arab Christians are fully integrated in their society, they understand the muslims sensitivity and they care not to hurt anyone's feelings. Unfortunately, people don't understand that these extremist evangelicals who work in the shadow of the traditional churches and the humanitarian missions as hospitals, schools and orhpanages don't represent, but themselves. Some extremists don't differentiate between one and another. They don't use knowledge, they have predetermind stereotyp and spontaneous reactions. Some evangelicals are the same, they work without any degree of wisdom or rational precaution. Normally people should have pitty for them, however, as the jordanian society is not prepared for diversity, people may humiliate them. This will hurt the feelings of the Christians, because many of them are children of cristian families who joined these evangelical movements for learning language, or hope of travelling abroad, joining some social activities or finding a job. The jordan Government did the best, people should understand that praciticing religions has limits because of security and social requierments.