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British Teacher Allowed To leave Sudan With Her Head
The grade-school teacher who was jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was met at London’s Heathrow Airport this morning by her son John and daughter Jessica.
Gillian Gibbons was released a week early thanks to an intense British diplomatic effort led by two Muslim members of Britain’s House of Lords, who met with Sudanese President Omar al Bashir.
Gibbons also sent the president a statement saying she didn’t mean to offend anyone with her class project.
Some Sudanese protesters, however, demanded far more punishment, such as lashes or even death.
Gibbons only had kind words about the country and the Sudanese people.
“It has been an ordeal but I’d like want you to know that I was well-treated in prison and everybody was very kind to me,” she said. “I was very sorry to leave Sudan. I had a fabulous time there. It’s a really lovely place, and I managed to see some of the beautiful countryside while I was there.”
But fearing for her safety, she returned to England immediately. Now, she said, she is looking forward to a low-key holiday celebration and to eat her favorite meal, fish and chips.
Gibbons spent a total of 8 days in a Sudanese jail, while a lynch mob gathered outside calling for her death.
“I’m just an ordinary middle-aged school teacher who went out to have a bit of an adventure, and got a bit more than I bargained for,” Gibbons said at a brief press conference at the airport. “I don’t think anyone could have imagined it would have snowballed like this.”
-Chris Jones
Religion Of Peace: Calls in Sudan for Execution of British Teacher
Everyone’s favorite religion of peace strikes again! Apparently 15 days in a Sudanese prison for calling a teddy bear “Muhammad” just isn’t enough to quell the growing Islamic rage in Sudan.
Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
The protesters streamed out of mosques after Friday sermons with their Islamic rage at full intensity, as pickup trucks with loudspeakers blared messages against Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation. She avoided the more serious punishment of 40 lashes.
I think the Mosque is like a drug for these people. It seems like Islamic rage is right at it’s peak fury immediately after attending the local mosque.
I don’t think I could go to church anymore if the Pastor whipped the entire congregation into a blind fury every Sunday. I think that’s the problem here. They pray five times a day, so many attend the mosque five times a day. That’s at least five times in a single day that they’re thrown into a full scale Islamic rage!
Becoming that enraged so frequently just can’t be healthy. In the future maybe we should try a combination of 2000 lb. bombs and intensive anger management classes as a new strategy for taming the Islamic world.
-Kenneth Levine
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