WTF? No caning? Just a light prison sentence? She named an inanimate but cute stuffed bear after the prophet Muhammad for Christsakes! Is there no justice?
Yesterday British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, was convicted by a Sudanese court for insulting Islam and sentenced to 15 days in prison. She was convicted for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed. Gibbons wept in court saying that she never meant to bring any offense.
The trial lasted for seven hours and was focused on resolving the case. This case had put Sudan in a difficult position between the angered Britain and the Islamic hard-liners.
According to the defense, the case started due to a school secretary with a grudge.
Muslim clerics demanded that Gibbons should be punished because they think that she is part of a Western plot to insult Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.
Abdel-Khaliq Abdallah, a member of the defense team said that Gibbons was in tears on Thursday when she testified in court.
Abdallah, said that “She said that she never wanted to insult Islam†when she allowed the pupils to name the teddy bear Mohammed.
Gibbons was found guilty for “insulting the faith of Muslims” and received 15 days of jail. After the sentence is served she will be deported to Britain, according to Ali Mohammed Ajab, a human rights lawyer on the defense team, the Associated Press reports.
She escaped the heavier punishment of 40 lashes, a fine and six months in jail.
Prosecutors tried to obtain the heavier punishment inciting religious hatred.
Luckily, Sudan is filled with more rational people who understand that naming a Teddy Bear is a serious crime that carries stiff penalties…. Like death.
Thousands of Sudanese men, many armed with clubs and knives, protested in Khartoum today calling for the execution of the British teacher who allowed a teddy bear to be called Mohamed.
The protesters emerged from Khartoum’s mosques after Friday prayers and gathered outside the presidential palace shouting slogans against Gillian Gibbons as riot police looked on.
The rowdy scenes took place as it emerged that a senior Labour peer was launching a private rescue mission to try to secure the early release of the 54-year-old teacher.
Ms Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in jail after being convicted of inciting religious hatred for letting her pupils at one of the city’s schools name a toy bear Mohamed.
Lord Ahmed, Britain’s first Muslim peer, is due to fly out to Khartoum this afternoon, raising hopes that the mother of two, from Liverpool, could be freed soon.
Some protesters taunted Western journalists by drawing a finger across their throats while others burnt newspapers that carried pictures of Ms Gibbons on the front page. The scenes in Martyrs Square, outside the palace, were becoming increasingly ugly.
And some infidel just signed their death warrant by creating the Flying Spaghetti Bear. How many heretics must we kill before we achieve peace and harmony?
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15 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.So when will they start killing all the menfolk named Mohammed? Oh wait – they’re MEN, not infidel women or apostate teddy bears named by children.
The depths of human ignorance is always a sad sight.
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I’m naming all the piglets in my sow’s upcoming litter “Muhammad.” HAH! What do you Sudanese think of that?!?
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Oh, gee, I stand corrected. I had read a few days ago in the San Diego Union Tribune that the Sudanese government was releasing her, immediately. I wonder who messed that up?
No rationality in sight.
People calling for this poor woman’s death are more than stupid, they’re evil.
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Doesn’t Sudan have more serious problems to take to the streets and protest about?
Those people are fucked.
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Sudan is run by people so grim I’m surprised they allowed anything as cuddly as a teddy bear into their realm.
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Also, I wonder if they’re going to put the teddy bear on eBay?
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I am reminded of someone’s comment that Western people will continue to believe that Muslims are savage fanatics as long as a sufficient number of Muslims behave like savage fanatics. I mean, I’m married to a Christian who is nothing like Jerry Falwell, but I still believe that Christians are on the whole like Jerry Falwell.
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Critic,
I should do an entire post on this because people seem to think that because I’m an atheist and I write or link to a lot of atheism items that I go around proselytizing.
The reason why you and your wife get along so well is (I’m guessing) that she isn’t constantly spouting bible verses or trying to convert you. Most of the people I know believe in god without having to preach to me why I’m going to hell. I don’t agree with their beliefs but religion doesn’t seem to go beyond a certain level. These people usually don’t believe in taking the bible as literal truth either. There’s seems to be a limit in how much religion a person can believe in before they start acting like a nut. For Christians it’s the 6,000 limit. Anyone who believes that the Earth is only 6,000 years old will set off my batshit insane meter and I start running.
None of my friends who are religious set off that meter.
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I have a friend who is both religious and evolutionist, they try their hardest to justify evolution within the literal word of the bible but no matter how hard they try it just comes out sounding like a lot of crazy jibberish to me. Apparently the earth is older than 6,000 years due to the average age of life enjoyed by our mutual ancestors which they believe accounts for the earth being however old we’ve determined it is (which wikipedia has listed at 4.54 billion). She then goes on to tell anyone who she thinks will care that god created the being that ended up evolving into however many different billions (trillions?) of forms of life that exist today. Her reason for his actions? To see what would happen.
So essentially my friend believes that god is pretty much some kind of scientist who created life as an experiment. I’m sure it won’t be long before she tells me that he did it by leaving a tooth in some cola overnight as a science experiment.
But hey, at least she seems saner than my friend who believes Chris Angel (Mind Freak) is a quarter alien super human who doesn’t need mere tricks to perform his magical feats.
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That’s because it *is* crazy jibberish, old boy, meant to appease sheepherders and farmers a few thousand years ago.
I have a Jehovah’s Witness friend, a very close friend with whom I get along famously. She’s 20 years older than me and we always can make each other laugh. Every now and then she tries to push a Watchtower on me and get me to promise to read it, but i just laugh it off.
Hey, crazy idea: is there any way we can combine Mohammed’s name with the 2girls1cup thing? That would really piss off some people…
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2mohammeds1cup? I think a simple edit job would do the trick with some name markers over the girls heads. Maybe some text at the beginning to explain that the video is about two chicks named after the prophet of the muslim faith engaging in the act of coprophilia/phagia (among other things) much like their namesake enjoyed doing. Maximum offense, minimum effort. To the person who actually makes that a reality I wish you the best of luck in evading a quick and brutal death.
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Well said! Green Ink has a great cartoon of a MoTeddy, THAT would get the European Muzzies rioting too.
This would make a wonderful Ramadan gift. A New Dark Age is Dawning has a link to them for sale at the Cafe Press store.
Calling these ignorant freaks in Sudan human garbage is just too kind. Oh so peaceful, effin SICK animals…
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
give a pig a prophet’s name
glorify the godly swine
and thank him for his bacon
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
outlaw all teddy bears
before some little kids
try to honor a prophet
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
pay your teachers with DEATH
for visiting to help out
your ungrateful country
http://citizenwarrior2.blogspot.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
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I wonder what they would do to me.(!?) I named my “AHHHEMM” Mohamed. …Well a lot of guys have names for their units and when I named the bad boy I wanted something big and cool sounding – and Dillinger seemed too common. Good thing they didn’t ask for it on my passport.
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I’ve never seen the fuss; after all — wasn’t Winnie-the-Pooh himself, that most famous of bears, a Muslim, according to this article … (warning: satire
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