2009-06-21 17:41:03 -

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - A Jordanian court has convicted a poet and sentenced him to one year in prison for using verses of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in his love poems.
The court said Sunday that Islam Samhan published his work without approval from the Jordanian government. Jordanian law bans publication of books that could be seen as harmful to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
Samhan was charged with slandering Islam by combining sacred words of the Quran with sexual themes.

In 2007, two Jordanian editors were sentenced to two years in jail for insulting Islam after they reprinted caricatures of the prophet that originally ran in a Danish newspaper.
The Danish newspaper's caricatures sparked widespread protests across the Muslim world.