Compared to other Muslim Arab countries in the region, Jordan is "moderate". However, the country is still far from being a democracy and has had outrageous laws on the book, such as the death penalty for any Jordanian who sells land to Jews. Jordan has only been "moderate" in the last 15 years or so. In fact, during the first Gulf War in 1991, Jordan was one of the only Arab countries to support Saddam Hussein in his war against the US.

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such as the death penalty for any Jordanian who sells land to Jews.

when Jews stop stealing land from the Palestinians,and when they allow Palestinians to go back to their homes in Palestine, I am sure then that Jordan will allow Jews to buy land in Jordan.

The last phrase in the article"oppression of freedom and intimidation practiced against intellectuals" is of great interest in this age..The two prominent individuals who defended intellectual liberity were the writer and the journalist.The writers for the last many decades have been replaced by pamphleteers who produce low-grade sensational fictions ,and normaly produced by a sort of conveyor-belt process that reduce human initiative to the minimum.The journalists have been replaced by reporters who do not feel the need for intergrity,they are just irresponsible propagandists,everything is produced for them by factory process,the work is normaly done by a team of artists who have to subordinate their individual style.The news commonly written by tired hacks to whome the subject and manner of treatment are dictated beforehand and what they write is merely a kind of raw material to be chopped into shape by producers and censors and then flashed in front of another tired hack(Anchor) to be delivered .It is important to realize that the conscious enemy of intellectual liberty  are those ,to whom, this kind of liberty ought to mean the most(psudojournalists).Those kind of people will not exert themselves to defend any just cause because they have neither the intellectual intergrity nor the courage to do so.Therefore,totalitarianism is triumphing even in societies that claim to be democratic.To exercise your right of intellectual freedom one has to fight against economic pressure,false rumors and the private armies of corrupt politicians......

The Arab Islam establishment considers free expression dangerous.
In all over the Arab countries and Iran.
The Jordanians are practicing the guidelines
The following is a typical summary:

interview with cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid, Al-Majd TV on March 30, 2008

Freedom of Speech Might Lead to Freedom of Belief.
A journalist,or one of those lowlifes are a mixture of Western,local, and imported ideologies, but they want to express their views with regard to religious rulings. This is the prerogative of religious scholars,not of ignorant people,the prerogative of knowledgeable people,not of fools or heretics.
The problem is that they want to open a debate on Islam. In other words, they want to open up everything for debate

IT BEGINS WITH FREEDOM OF THPOGHT,IT CONTINUES WITH FREEDOME OF SPEACH,AND IT ENDS UP WITH FREEDOM OF BELIEF

They say:I think, therefore I want to express my thoughts. I want to express myself.Then they will talk about freedom of belief,and say that anyone is entitled to believe in whatever he wants.

WHAT THEY WANT IS VERY DANGEROUS

It's unlikely any Jew will buy land in Jordan since that "moderate" country's laws include one that it is illegal for Jews to live anywhere in Jordan. And you call Israel rascist!

6:41..Yes, Israel is racist.
My grandparents born and buried in Jerusalem, Palestine. My parents born in Jerusalem Palestine..got out fearing for their lives during the 40's due to Palestinian ethnic cleansing..Being a non Jew, am I allowed to buy land, and live in Jerusalem??

From an Islamic viewpoint, the Holy Qur'an is sacred and revealed by God, it's totally unacceptable for any Muslim living in a Muslim country to associate it with bad things. I'm not saying that poetry is a bad thing or illegal in Islam, that's not the case but it seems that the writer "combined the sacred words of the Qur'an with sexual themes", which is an insult to the Qur'an. I think you should know that most Muslim countries aren't completely secular.