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Sudan charges Gillian Gibbons with inciting religious hatred
By Alan Hood | December 1, 2007
Yet another candidate for religious moron of the year but this time there is a twist the candidate is an entire government. Yes Sudan you are officially nominated after you decided to charge a teacher with inciting religious hatred, because of a stuffed bear that her students named Muhammad. Yes that’s right her Muslim students voted to name the bear, it wasn’t her doing at all, yet she was charged with a very serious offense. Gillian Gibbons, the English teacher was found guilty of insulting Islam and was sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation back to England. I am sure that it will not exactly break her heart that she will no longer have to live under the rule of an oppressive government like Sudan, but she was there to help the incredibly poor school system of Sudan, and they choose to get rid of people who actually want to help. There is nothing like wanting to stay a third world country forever.
I wonder if it would have been possible to ask Gillian Gibbons to simply have her class rename the bear, and let everyone go on their merry way. No I am sure that would have been way too simple for a government that wants to do anything to make world news for their stupidity. I really do understand how a Muslim may be offended by this, but I have to wonder if they would have been as insulted if the teacher were an Arab Muslim? I know you are going to argue that a Muslim would have never done that, but I counter with everyone at one time or another during the course of their life makes a mistake. I have a deep love for every religion I find them all fascinating and polarizing at the same time, you can sure read on this site the love I have shown to Islam and to Muhammad, but we all need to show more tolerance to our fellow man, and if we are insulted sit down and talk about it instead of blowing a situation out of proportion. Sudan your entire government should be charged with inciting religious hatred for everything you have done in this case and oh so many more.
Sudan you are going to have to step up your game to beat out Fred Phelps and Lyndon Lamborn, but considering you are an entire government acting like a spoiled child I may just give you one extra notch of stupidity. Alright it would really be impossible to more ignorant than Fred Phelps, no make that impossible, so Sudan you will have to really step up and do something extra special to win the year end award.
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