Many high ranking persons and groups have come out to demand freedom for the murderer - including Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood and the president of the Arab Human Rights Organization.
The murderer's own mother has also spoken of her son:
I am proud of my son, and I hold my head high. My son did a heroic deed and has pleased Allah and his own conscience. My son lifts my head and the head of the entire Arab and Islamic nation. I am proud of any Muslim who does what Ahmad did.... [My son] said: The only thing that I am angry about is the gun, which did not work properly. Otherwise I would have killed all of the passengers on the bus."
Now Jordan's Justice minister is joining the growing movement to free the man, who is a hero to many (most) Jordanians. We'll see if this man's imprisonment will trigger a mass movement in the Kingdom and/or if Jordanians will follow Pakistanis and demand the government represent their interests in freeing a child killer, just as Pakistanis are demanding, en masse, the hanging of a Christian lady for 'blasphemy'.
If so, it would democracy in action. It's what the people want, after all.
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