Briton Pardoned in Sudan Islam Insult

Peoplepc online/Associated Press ^ | Monday, December 3, 2007 | Staff

[Turret Gunner A20]

KHARTOUM, Sudan - A British teacher jailed for insulting Islam after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was released Monday when Sudan's president pardoned her, a British Embassy spokesman said.

The conviction of Gillian Gibbons under Sudan's Islamic Sharia law shocked Britons and many Muslims worldwide. It also inflamed passions among many Sudanese, some of whom called for her execution.

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[pbear8]

Did they behead the bear???

[maine-iac7]

Gillian must have been terrified

She will continue to be terrified - home is overrun with muzzies and it's jihadists - she is marked for execution...

[Eddie01]

...and many Muslims worldwide

many? - that is a completely made up.

How about some, very few, a couple or just 19 (the # at the only recorded protest in Britian).

[NCC-1701]

islam is a cult. Nothing more, nothing less. A long time ago, I decided to stop using uppercase letters when talking about islam, mohammed, or anything related to that cult. To do so would be acknowledging them as a legitimate religious body. THEY ARE NOT THAT! They are a single-mided murdering, always offended, bunch of thugs that use intimidation to forward their agenda. All of us here should stop rendering respect toward those 7th century throwbacks. Respect is earned. To this date, they HAVEN’T EARNED ANY.

[null and void]

Can't think of anyone less threatening than a first grade teacher and her innocent 6 year old students.

She let them VOTE. That's the real crime.

Can't have them grow up to be uppity...

[null and void]

Or: "A British teacher who allegedly insulted..." (The famous "allegedly" prefaces every one accused of of the least of crimes until the time they are convicted - it's journalistic 'law' to keep from being sued. Maybe this poor, beleaguered lady should sue AP for slander - she'll likely need funds to go into hiding for some years.

She was convicted.

[maine-iac7]

She was convicted.

True - by a barbaric society - does that make her guilty? I think not, and for the AP to state that she DID insult Islam is to give credence to Shari Law -

WE, of the so-called free world, stop acquiescing and molly coddling these barbarians or we are sunk...

She did NOT insult Islam - and the AP should not have so stated that she did

[null and void]

*shrug* and OJ was innocent...

[TXnMA]

"...the case was caught up in the ideology that al-Bashir's Islamic regime has long instilled in Sudan, a mix of anti-colonialism, religious fundamentalism and a sense that the West is besieging Islam."

Siege is not the solution...

[Turret Gunner A20]

You see, Islam IS a ROP. They are just misunderstood. I do not want to read any more nasty comments from you guys and gals. Has anyone told you where you can shove it? If not, let me have the honor.

[davisfh]

"...I have to go out in the yard and pickup the “Mark Cubans” my dog left in the grass."

Exercise caution. Some of them may be a bit mushy.

[353FMG]

Has anyone told you that you are as gullible as they come? If not, let me have the unpleasant duty.

[null and void]

Did it really need a sarcasm tag?

Maybe it was sarchasm, the gap between sarcasm and its intended recepient...

[maine-iac7]

ah - I'm going to give 353FMG the benefit of the doubt that he/she just thought the sarg ID wasn't necessary?

If not meant as sarcasm, then I'm with you

[Turret Gunner A20]

Has anyone told you that you are as gullible as they come? If not, let me have the unpleasant duty.

1. Is it really necessary to get nasty over a sarcstic reply to what I believed was a sarcastic remark by you?

2. If your remark, giving people orders about what they can and cannot say in order to meet with your approval, was not sarcasm as I thought, then you can for damned sure shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

3. And, I can imagine how unpleasant your nastiness is.

[Turret Gunner A20]

See post # 35.

[null and void]

*smooch*

[Turret Gunner A20]

ah - I'm going to give 353FMG the benefit of the doubt that he/she just thought the sarg ID wasn't necessary?

I didn't think it was either. Thus my post without a saec ID to a person whom I thought wouldn't need one. But I guess he too gullible to recognize sarcasm when he sees it.

[norton]

"Those six year olds weren’t innocent. They named a teddy bear Mohammed."

I blame the teddy bear,
you just can't trust 'em.

[Turret Gunner A20]

*smooch*

You'd better be a girl, or this "smooch" thing -- uh ... well, never mind.