Calls in Sudan for Execution of Teddy Bear Teacher

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071130/D8T82JV80.html

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Muhammad."

The protesters streamed out of mosques after Friday sermons, as pickup trucks with loudspeakers blared messages against Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation. She avoided the more serious punishment of 40 lashes.

They massed in central Martyrs Square outside the presidential palace, where hundreds of riot police were deployed. They did not try to stop the rally, which lasted about an hour.

"Shame, shame on the U.K.," protesters chanted.

They called for Gibbons' execution, saying, "No tolerance: Execution," and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad."

of the country before something does happen to her. If something does go seriously wrong, and harm does come to her, the Sudanese are not likely to be happy with the fall out.

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I don't agree that all of those people believe in like manner, I have no doubt that perhaps some are scared to stop such ignorant behavior, not all is always as it seems.

That's quite progressive, for the Sudan. Allowing a teddy bear to be named "Mohamed" by the children, especially if any are females, isn't altogether bright, in that corner of the World.

reason other than ignorance! It would seem to me that it is very unlikely that she woke up one morning with the idea that she wanted to insult the muslim faith...

of Sudanese customs and culture, let alone the legal system, if any. Without international media attention.
I guess it comes down to, this teacher just got one hell of an education in her field of study!
I hope she gets out alive, and will write of her experiences.

Fucking idiots...
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I would not put it past them to swarm the "prison" and do her in..

These people are NUTS!!

Get right in there faces and let them understand that nothing but nothing harmful better come to this teacher.... This is such absolute BS, and I seriously believe that these people are nuts.

Apparently slaughtering their own people and raping/mutilating their own women isn't enough fucking blood for them......

The Sudan has been a cesspool of intollerance and hatred for so long. It's a shame that it takes irrational threats against a westerner for this to be in the media again, but the ignorance perpetuated in that country is staggeringly frightful!

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Can't be doin' no thinkin', nope, just blamin' that whats you don't got likin' for.

"Religious" people are calling for someone's murder/execution because of a perceived disrespect toward "religion". Is that simplistic enough for you?

As a gay man, I can tell you that the primary root of LGBT oppression is religion. From Fred Phelps to Pope Benedict XVI and every manipulative evangelical in between -- gay people are either defined as "intrinsically evil" or as an "abomination". You'll excuse me if I'm not buying into the "peace, charity and love" fallacy.

Nothing has polluted America's cultural and political landscape over the last 20+ years like "religion".

And your objection is about simplistic generalities? I'd say you're being a bit too sensitive.

And the root of LGBT oppression is homophobia, an area in which religion does not corner the market.

But this isn't a thread about homophobia -- it about the heinous acts done in the name of religion.

In actuality, the foundations of religions are nothing more than a system of rituals and superstitions which attempt to control the uncontrollable.

The Klan thinks it knows the simple problem with society, too.

I trust you're off somewhere defacing portraits of MLK since he was part of that root of all evil.

it is not bigoted to state that people who believe that trout live in trees are irrational

if people believe in imaginary made up childish bullshit, then that's their problem.

So you're slandering Dr King by suggesting that without Christianity, he would have been a moral vacuum? Or perhaps you're suggesting that he was NOT influenced by Thoreau? or that he wasn't influenced by Gandhi? Do you realize how dumb that is?

under the banner of religion is still sadism.

It's no wonder they are still stuck in the 11th century.

Mz Pip
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Sometimes, i have no faith in humanity.

Hey cultural relativists, I dare you to defend THIS shit. :grr:

The original charge against this British teacher was "inciting hatred of Islam," I think it was put, and was going to be 40 lashes, a horrific cruelty that might have killed the victim, and 6 months in prison, I think it was. After the uproar from other countries, against this barbaric sentence, it was lowered to the shortened sentence, and deportation after. The all-male protest groups, which no one is naming as all-male even though they are, in a country with vicious rules and laws against women, which almost no one is referring to, were not happy with the "moderate" response, and so now you have this.

What is odd about all this, is that I think the teacher, being from the modern West (perhaps she is a hated Christian), probably thought that naming a loved teddy bear after the founder of the religion was a tribute, and touching. Nobody, after all, is even mentioning that it was the kids themselves who named the teddy bear, not the teacher--they were no doubt doing it as a favorable gesture. I think the teacher had no idea whatsoever that this would have been considered a "hateful attack on Islam" or any other absurdity, until the lynch-mob violence erupted, and she was endangered. Whipping her to death or near-death, however, would not have incited any hatred against the cruel, male law of Islam whatsoever--not at all! This after all, is the area near Darfur, with genocide and ritual rape as a terror tactic, slavery and starvation. Brutal, Medieval cruelty and suffering.

Of course, leave it to the clueless, asshole atheists of DU to work it into an attack on Christians in the U.S., religion as a generality, and whatever else can be spun out of it. You did not quite grasp the problem of the story.

what they call it or the name of their imaginary deity...they're all part of the problem.

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Believe me, I grasp the problem(s) of the story better than you know...

named it Muhammad in memory of their classmate.

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Kind of puts things into perspective doesn't it?

Shame on them nasty Muslims.

Don

They are a Muslim country full of strangers. We must give them freedom and money. Ask any Republican.

but I say this as a supporter of women, gays, and reason. Extreme Islam is the worst of the Abrahamic beliefs. Nothing the religious right in this country compares to the barbarism of Islamic sharia law. They are backwards!

Islamic fundamentalism is the craziest of the three crazed desert religions.

the funny thing is quite a bit of thi can be traced to reactionary movements created in egypt and supported by the exportation of "troublemakers" from saudi arabia. and suddenly weak countries like saudi and egypt can parley other weak countries' populations into hysterical recruits for agitation and guerrilla war. it's a clever but dangerous business. unfortunately the fruits reaped tend to be, uh, rather unstable...

proxy wars, proxy wars, wealth, arms, 'n power... a very old game indeed.

pull out his stuffing and scatter it to the four winds!

A force against which even the 'immovable object' must yield.

Mankind is destined to extinction by its own inability to educate a majority of its component members.

' Fill your glass, we'll toast the fall of the ' will that will not bend.'

Ignorance, intolerance, and bigoted hatred, all in the name of some imaginary god. Just think if the likes of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist nitwits in our country weren't somewhat marginalized, and gained either a majority, or one of their own in high office.