Posted on 11/29/2007 8:48:43 PM PST by Huntress
I hope Mrs. Gibbons' daughter is just saying this to spare her mother more torment until she is out of Sudan. If this happened to a member of my family, I would have an abundance of ill will toward Islam.
I’m sorry for the ruling, but sometimes liberals need a strong knock in the head to realize that conservatism has some very good points in its favor. After 15 days, this lady may change her politics.
I’m sure that there are a few decent muslim individuals who abhor what is happening to Mrs. Gibbons. Unfortunately, the Sudan is not a machete-free zone, so they won’t be speaking up.
I think you’re probably right. Right now, I’m concerned for the little boy (and his family) who spoke up for her and said the name was his idea.
I hope Mrs. Gibbons’ daughter is just saying this to spare her mother more torment until she is out of Sudan. If this happened to a member of my family, I would have an abundance of ill will toward Islam.
Yes, there’s cause for concern there.
“I think you’re probably right. Right now, I’m concerned for the little boy (and his family) who spoke up for her and said the name was his idea.”
He’ll probably just lose his hand. Modern medicine will prevent an infection though.
ROP Ping/shakes head.
Send in the fricken’ Royal Marines and kick some ass and rescue her. Besides, the scum running the place need killing, religion of peace my @—!
-—”I don’t want the verdict to lead to any anti feeling towards Muslims. Everyone has been very nice, but one of my fears, and I imagine my mother’s also, will be that this results in any sort of resentment towards Muslim people.”-—
Let me see. The good Muslims are putting your mother in a hellhole for 15 days over the naming of a teddy bear, while the middle of the road Muslims wanted to give her 40 lashes and a year, and the fervent Muslims wanted her put to death. Over the naming of a teddy bear...
If it were my mother I’d take up burning down their Mosques as a full time profession. No offense.
The kids in the class named their bear using the most popular boys name in the world. Governments like this deserve to be incinerated.
This did not happen to a member of my family, and I do have an abundance of ill will toward islam, the radical islam, the islam that the majority of "moderate" ( I'm told they really exist) refuses to denounce. A lot of ill will.
A great abundance.
FMCDH(BITS)
For some reason, I find this Teddy Bear business more chilling and ominous than even the steady occurrence of deadly and atrocious attacks. Perhaps it is in the element of betrayal by the "office assistant".
15 days is not much time
i hope given the politics involved the Sudanese will isolate and protect her and let her out early to get the gesture thing for themselves
poor naive woman
People do stupid things, and when they do, they need our help.
Lucky for us, our 'currency' still goes a long way.
Make me secretary of state and they'd be naming a national holiday after her while kissing my hiney.
your empathy is killing me..lol
I suggested to them to name their next one Mohamed, or Mo for short.
And pig farmers. Hey, why not call them Mo's instead of sows. And Miglets instead of piglets.
Any religion this threatened by the name of a teddy bear is no great religion. It is a farce.
Where’s the new boy wonder Prime Minister Brown in all this?
I’d have sent the SAS in a week ago and told Sudan to sit down and shut up—they aren’t taking my citizen anywhere.
All I see is a bunch of useless harrumphing by British twits, when someone needs to threaten the Sudanese with an offer they can’t refuse.
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