I am sure you are all familiar by now with the case of the British teacher who has been jailed in Sudan for 15 days for naming a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons will be deported at the end of her brief sentence.
According to news reports, it appears that Gibbons asked her 7-year-old pupils to choose a name for the bear, and 20 of the 23 kids chose the name Muhammad.
What I have been pondering the past few hours is, if the Sudanese are barmy enough to arrest, jail and deport a foreigner for naming a teddy bear Muhammad, why aren’t they also turning their attention to the kids and the parents too? Aren’t they all as culpable for this blasphemy? After all, it wasn’t the teacher who named the bear it was the children.
Sticking with Sudan, I also noticed a story recently in the New York Times that said the Sudanese government had banned Scandinavian troops from acting as peace keepers in Sudan because of the Danish cartoon controversy.
Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, said in a recent interview with the television network Al Jazeera, “We in Sudan declared mobilization against the Scandinavians after the publishing of the offensive cartoons of the prophet.”
Last time I checked, Scandinavia was comprised of a number of different countries. So why lump all of them together?
UPDATE: It seems Gillian Gibbons’ 15-day sentence plus deportation is too lenient for some:
No TagsProtests in Khartoum
Thousands of people have marched in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to call for UK teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot.Mrs Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was jailed by a court on Thursday after allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
[…]The marchers took to the streets after Friday prayers to denounce the sentence as too lenient.
The protesters gathered in Martyrs Square, outside the presidential palace in the capital, many of them carrying knives and sticks.
Marchers chanted “Shame, shame on the UK”, “No tolerance - execution” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad”.
Why should there be rational explanations for irrational acts?
Are you answering a question with a question?
Ridiculous over reaction though it is, I’m not sure it excuses the New York Post using the phrase “Islamo-nuts jail teacher…” in their splashed frontpage headline…
Why firing squad? I thought stoning was the MO of choice?
Democracy and Islam are NOT compatible, that’s all there is to it. Ask them and they will tell you the same thing.
Yes. Is that bad?
What do you think?
Screw you dickweed. ?
I am all for this innocent woman being let free, her only crime is being a teacher in a country that abuses and terrorises it’s own people (Darfur) and how ridicules those idiots marching with a knife, machete look. Why don’t they do that on behalf of those their fellow citizens from Darfur-where women are raped, children malnourished men killed or kidnapped and their houses burnt?
But on another note how ridicules are the world media when a lot of people are still in Guantanamo prison without trial. Don’t get me wrong some of them are evil, but most are innocent and if the US/UK government thinks they are not let the court decide it.
What’s really sad is the way this woman and the brits in general have acquiesed power over to the Islamofascists for the sake of multiculturalism. Insteado of condemning the radicalization and the violence over something as inane as a Teddy bear, they are bendnig over admiting some guilt. Could you imagine these same people extending the same consideration to Mormons and Jews?
I think a lot of bending over have been done for the Jews community after the World War II.
So let us not be negative for how much energy and time the British have dedicated towards the Jews cause.
Classic Ermiyas. I love it.
Yes Cretin, anyhow happy X-mas and New Year to you all.