Posted on 12/01/2007 10:28:13 AM PST by Ooh-Ah
Many in the British press are aghast at the almost complete lack of reaction by the British Foreign Office over the outrageous jailing of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan on the charge of insulting religion and inciting hatred, after her class of 7-year-olds named their teddy bear Mohammed.
Gibbons, a teacher with an impeccable record who went to Sudan to help local children, is now being held in a crowded cell with 20 hardened criminals in Khartoums notorious mosquito-infested Omdurman prison.
The jail was originally designed for 50 people, but now houses up to 1,400.
Yet the British Foreign Office said, We are treating the issue as a consular matter. This issue should not be seen as part of a diplomatic or political dispute.
Some commentators, noting that the inaction over the teddy bear incident follows similar inaction after Iran kidnapped 15 British sailors several months ago, said great should now be dropped from the name Great Britain.
Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher would never have put up with this nonsense. The SAS would already have been dispatched to free Gillian Gibbons, noted one commentator. The British today are doing precisely nothing.
Meanwhile, Britains most popular newspaper, The Sun, notes on its website at the present time that ten thousand people, some carrying knives and sticks, have marched on the capital of Sudan calling for the teacher jailed for naming a teddy bear Mohammed to be shot.
The Sun is also urging people to put a teddy in their window to show their support for Gillian.
In America, at least one moderate Islamic group, the American Islamic Congress, called on Gibbons to be released and launched an online letter-writing campaign.
But the hypocrisy and double standards of other Islamists knows few bounds. The SimplyIslam website, for example is selling a teddy bear named Adam.
The Sun is also urging people to put a teddy in their window to show their support for Gillian.
The Brits could really show their support by electing leaders with the balls to help the free world stomp a mudhole in the ass of this murderous cult...
yumm....
I susect that this is a pretty big step for ordinary folks.
Notice the paper didn't ask them to put "Mohammed" name tag on the teddy bear.
Most folks realize that even a teddy bear marks their house for rocks.
Re #6: Don’t buy your teddy from the islam-a-nazies. Get them from the chi-coms @ Toys are Us or from those anti-American Vermontinese.
How the BBC portrays it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-FKfwz_wKE4
Also, consider (from http://corner.nationalreview.com/):
Another Recruit for the Royal Navy [John Derbyshire]
Lisa: Radio Derb (on air shortly) highlights the most depressing aspect of Islamo-teddy-bear-gate: the reaction of Mrs. Gibbon’s son John. The Beeb quotes this 25-year-old instantiation of the New Briton as saying, or sniveling: “I don’t want the verdict to lead to any anti feeling towards Muslims. ... One of my fears, and I imagine my mother’s also, will be that this results in any sort of resentment towards Muslim people.”
Radio Derb supplies the obvious commentary:
No, that would never do, would it, John? They lock up your Mum in a filthy rat-infested dungeon for what was obviously an honest mistake, and your biggest fear is that someone will feel resentment towards them. You know my biggest fear, John? My biggest fear is, that there are enough whimpering poltroons like yourself in the Western world to turn our civilization to mush, the way political correctness has turned your brain to mush.
You are so very right. I just read the article about Muslims in Sweden and it breaks my heart. Even though Sweden is very liberal I know people there and they are wonderful people. We have got to get a hold of the government and let them know what we the people want done with immigration.
If the British government had any balls, this woman would not be in jail. Someone would go get her and bring her homwe along with the head of the muzzie maggot that jailed her.
Instead od a teddy in the window, why don’t the Brits put the SAS into Khartoum. Ohhhh, for Maggie Thatcher or someone like her!
“This government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”
Teddy Roosevelt
When holding 1 US citizen would be considered an act of war....
Why not drop leaflets in the shape of Porky Pig with the name of...................naaaaah.
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