AP - KHARTOUM, Sudan - British teacher Gillian Gibbons was convicted of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation from Sudan, one of her defense lawyers said Thursday. [Click here for full article]
The good news is that she was convicted of a lesser crime. She was initially charged with inciting religious hatred.
How ironic.
Naming a teddy bear Muhammad is hatred, flying a plane into a building is a not.
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Ironic indeed - like the Islamic group that firebombed an Orthodox church last year to protest the Pope linking Islam and violence!!!
What's wrong with the British? "Soft diplomacy" - what the hell? Where is Kitchener? (those who know history will get the reference)
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