Tunisia, Libya, Egypt have already fallen to Islamist rule, Syria is almost guaranteed to once Assad is overthrown and now the possibility of Jordan going down that path. Pray for the safety of Israel.

(DPA) — Jordanian Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh Friday said that election laws specifically designed to prevent the country’s Muslim Brotherhood from coming to power should be changed.

In an interview with the state-run television, Khasawneh, a former International Court of Justice (ICJ) jurist, advocated reforms that would allow the 2012 early elections to be run according to an election law similar to the 1989 system that produced an Islamic majority.

He strongly criticized current election laws under which the 2007 and 2010 elections were conducted, saying they produced ”service deputies” rather than true legislators.

“I don’t like the way Islamists were precluded from the political process,” Khasawneh said. “I am against demonizing Islamists as if the objective of the state is to prevent them from access to power.”

Amidst increasing pressure for political reforms in Jordan, the Islamic Action Front (AF), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, has charged that the 2007 polls were “rigged” by the government of former prime minister Marouf Bakhit with the aim of crippling the Islamists’ presence at the parliament.

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