'Teddy Bear Teacher' Convicted
A Sudanese court has just sentenced Gillian Gibbons to 15 days in jail and deportation. Gibbons, an English teacher in Khartoum, was found guilty of having insulted Islam. The accusation came after she asked her class of indigenous six- and seven-year-olds to name a teddy bear she'd brought to school, and they settled on Mohammed.
Her lawyers have reported receiving death threats.
"I am threatened, that's why I'm carrying a gun in court," defense lawyer Abdel Khalig Abdallah said, opening his coat to reveal a revolver during a break in the trial.
Around the time of Gibbons' arrest, according to the principal,
"There were men with big beards [in the school] asking where she was and saying they wanted to kill her."
The most disgusting thing about all this is how everybody tried to "accommodate" and apologize, when the whole thing is obviously a contrived excuse for the Sudanese to take a hostage and make the UN shut up about Darfur.
The real insult to the Prophet Mohammed is not the teddy bears that may be called after him- it's the vicious savages who bear his name.
Posted by: | Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 11:47 PM
This is why we need seperation of church and state!
By the way, why don't they just just punish the teddy bear?
Posted by: George Arndt | Friday, November 30, 2007 at 03:05 PM