Posted on 12/03/2007 1:42:26 AM PST by america4vr
Teacher Gillian Gibbons is to be released from prison in Sudan after she was jailed for allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Mrs Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was jailed for 15 days by a court in Sudan.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir pardoned her after a meeting with two British Muslim peers, Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "delighted and relieved" at the news and that "common sense had prevailed".
The BBC's Adam Mynott said Mrs Gibbons is expected to be released later on Monday.
The jailing of Mrs Gibbons has led to an international outcry and has embarrassed the government.
Lord Ahmed thanked the president for granting the pardon and said both he and Baroness Warsi were proud to have been able to help Mrs Gibbons.
"This is a case which is unfortunate, unintentional, innocent misunderstanding, and as British Muslim Parliamentarians we, Baroness Warsi and myself, we feel proud that we've been able to secure Gillian Gibbon's release."
Mr Brown said Mrs Gibbons would be released into the care of the British embassy in Khartoum.
"Through the course of Mrs Gibbons' detention I was glad to see Muslim groups across the UK express strong support for her case.
"I applaud the particular efforts of Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi in securing her freedom. I am also grateful to our officials for all their work behind the scenes."
Downing St confirmed that Mr Brown spoke to Mrs Gibbons' son John Gibbons on Monday morning.
A spokesman said they talked about the behind the scenes work that had been going on to secure Mrs Gibbons' release.
One of Mrs Gibbons' former teaching colleagues said he was delighted by her release.
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All they’ve got to do now is get her out in one piece.
The barbarians are going to really go bonkers now.
Regards
Most UK muslims were appalled at the treatmen of Mrs Gibbons. It’s only the backwards, semi-literate Sudanese savages who were calling for her death...
I think you are correct!! I would say that most of the British Muslims are appalled at the conduct of their fellow muslims in the Sudan!! sure!! Muslims in Great Britian will not kill a Christian!! it is just those good muslims in the Sudan that kills innocent Christians!! sure
Nice. Any normal person who goes for 1 minute to any country dominated by the death cult is crazy. Any civilized country which lets even 1 member of the death cult in is crazy.
What happened to the bear?
“I think you are correct!! I would say that most of the British Muslims are appalled at the conduct of their fellow muslims in the Sudan!!”
I would say you’re wrong.
lol.
LLS
...or the children that voted to name it?
Tell us about this theory as they cut your throat. They didn’t come because they like you, they came to conquer you.
There is some truth to that no doubt. The UK Muslims represent a population that will pragmatically do some assimilation of Western culture while the Sudanese are under the premise, never assimilate. But that is the only difference, the ends are the same. In the Arab world, the saying goes first Saturday, then Sunday. Which means first the Jew, then the Christian and they are willing to wait their time.
Interesting theory. Of course, it assumes that all muslims are in on some vast conspiracy in which is aimed towards taking over the world. In which all are fantatically loyal to the cause to the point were they are able to keep this masterplan a secret from anyone outside the faith.
It’s like believing in the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ only for Muslims instead of Jews isn’t it?
Believing that all muslims are baby-gobbling demons who all want to slice infidel throats and offer them up as sacrifices to Allah makes you almost as big a crackpot as those Sudanese peasants waving swords around in Khartoum, only slightly less scary and...... oh I’m wasting my breath here aren’t I? Whatever...
Complicity does not always require conscious activity, may be it only requires the passivity from offering no forms of resistance.
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