Guilty Verdict in Sudan for British Teacher – New York Times
A British teacher accused of insulting Muslims after her class called a teddy bear Mohammad was found guilty and jailed for 15 days, a defence lawyer said on Thursday.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, was ordered to be deported after she had completed her sentence.
“She was found guilty of insulting religion and the sentence is 15 days (in jail) and deportation,” defence lawyer Ali Ajib said after the trial in a Khartoum courtroom, which lasted less than a day.
The London Times have been covering this story all week but this is from the New York Times. I’m astounded at how quickly the events unraveled. She could have received of 40 lashes and a six-month jail sentence so I guess the 15 days in jail and deportation is equivalent to a slap on the wrist in Sudan.
Here is a link to the London Times version of this story. They’ve covered it very well (IMHO).
Who would have thought a person could go to jail for a teddy-bear (one that wasn’t stuffed with drugs)?
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Tags: teddy-bear, Sudan, teacher, Britain, Islam, diplomacy, religion
November 30, 2007 at 12:16 pm
The insanity of this bruised and battered religion is now clear for all to see. The extremists are quite clearly one sandwich short of a picnic, but dont let the tag “extremist” fool you, these are not people on the fringes, these people are in power, and the outrageous lack of condemnation from the majority of supposed “peaceful” muslims is the most sinister harbinger of all. Its a farcical story, but if we dont deal harshly with this kind of thing, the world will suffer a terrible fate at the hands of these people. Truly, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.