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  • Sword-Waving Protesters Call for Death of Teacher Who Named a Bear Muhammad

    12/01/2007 2:10:27 AM PST · by america4vr · 67 replies · 54+ views
    The Guardian ^ | December 1, 2007 | The Guardian Staff
    Carrying swords and machetes and waving green Islamic flags, protesters marched through the streets of Khartoum yesterday demanding the execution of British teacher Gillian Gibbons. "No one lives who insults the prophet," read one of the banners outside the British embassy. More than 1,000 Muslim demonstrators in the Sudanese capital called for her to be shot or stabbed for insulting Islam after her pupils called a teddy bear Muhammad. Gibbons, 54, of Liverpool, was sentenced on Thursday night to 15 days in jail followed by deportation in a case that has attracted international condemnation. Last night she was moved from...