Islamic Awakening:Jordanians Preparing to Rally against the israel-backed government on Friday

19 protest movements in Jordan condemned the government’s attempts to create rift among the revolutionary groups, and called on the country’s people to participate in the Friday rallies titled as “Unity, Only Way to Materialize Reforms”.

“The government is using different ways like hiring forces in civilian suits and writers as well as superficial reforms to impair the unity among its opponents,” the movements said in a statement obtained by FNA.

In addition to the 19 revolutionary movements, the country’s Islamist groups, including Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood) and the Islamic Action Front (Jabhat al-‘Amal al-Islami) have announced their preparedness to take part in the rallies after the Friday prayers in front of Al-Hossein Mosque in Central Amman.

Last Friday, more than 3,000 people had also taken part in an anti-corruption march in the Jordanian capital organized for the first time by a newly formed partnership of Islamists and leftists.

“No to protecting the corruption of the government,” demonstrators chanted on the march from Al-Hossein Mosque to the town hall a kilometer away.

Protesters carried banners reading: “Political reform is the path to wiping out corruption … Corruption is the cause of poverty and unemployment”.

The National Reform Front head, former Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Obeidat, said the protesters demanded “an end to corruption in all its forms: political, administrative, legislative and financial”.

It was the first public action by the NFR, a partnership formed in May by the Muslim Brotherhood, leftist parties, trade union leaders and independents.

While Jordan has seen less protests than its neighbors swept up in the Islamic Awakening, Amman has also been the scene of protests since January to demand sweeping economic and political reform.