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A British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of writing project headed home Monday after being pardoned — ending a case that set off an international outcry and angered many moderate Muslims. Complete Story...
A Sudanese court convicted a British teacher Thursday of insulting Islam for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced her to 15 days in prison, avoiding a heavier punishment of 40 lashes. The teacher wept in court, insisting she never meant to offend.
So it wasn't religion at all but a disgruntled employee.
A British teacher convicted of insulting religion in Sudan by allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has left Khartoum on a flight home, the British Foreign Office said Monday.
The teacher jailed for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad will be sent back to England today.
A British teacher locked up for naming a teddy bear Mohammed has said she will be 'sad to leave Sudan' after being granted a full presidential pardon.
In reponse to Jemima Khan 'I feel for Gillian Gibbons' *
When my son was four years old I found him playing with a one-armed Action Man. I asked him what had happened to Action Man. He replied, "Aba (Daddy in Urdu) said he'd been stealing." Imran's idea of a joke.
'"A British teacher in Sudan has been arrested and charged for allowing her pupils to name a classroom Teddybear 'Mohammed' Thousands of Muslims poured into the streets to protest the 'light' sentence (15 days jail) and called for her to face the firing squad.''
Hat tip to brainporn for another excellent catch: Meanwhile, hundreds of angry protesters, some waving ceremonial swords from trucks equipped with loud speakers, gathered Friday outside the presidential palace to denounce Gibbons — some calling for her execution. (cnn)
Protesters reacted angrily on Friday after the sentencing of a Briton whose class named a teddy bear Muhammad.
The chief defence lawyer of Gillian Gibbons - the teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed - said today he expected her to be pardoned following a visit by two British Muslim peers.
Two Muslim peers are beginning a private bid to free a British teacher jailed in Sudan for insulting Islam. Lord Ahmed, a Labour peer, and Baroness Warsi, a Conservative peer, have arrived in Sudan to meet President Bashir in a bid to end Gillian Gibbons' ordeal.
Protesters reacted angrily today after the sentencing of a Briton whose class named a teddy bear Muhammad.
Hundreds of demonstrators in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, poured into the streets on Friday demanding the execution of a British teacher who was convicted of insulting Islam because her class of 7-year-olds named a teddy bear Muhammad.
Some Islamic scholars hold to the idea that there is no need for democracy. In an Islamic state, the law is the sharia, handed down by Allah through the Prophet Mohammed. A democratic government is a means to developing laws by gathering input from the citizenry.
The British teacher jailed in Sudan for insulting Islam by allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed has been moved to a secret location for her own safety.
Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding clubs and knives are marching through the streets of Khartoum demanding the execution of teddy bear teacher Gillian Gibbons.
Tiny minority of extremists update: Thousands of protesters wielding clubs and knives have gathered outside the Sudanese presidential palace calling for execution by firing squad of the British teacher who let her students name a teddy bear Muhammad.
The brouhaha about Gillian Gibbons is interesting, not least because it confirms there are idiots in Khartoum as well as Whitehall.
Thousands of people are marching in Khartoum calling for British teacher Gillian Gibbons to be executed. The 54-year-old has been jailed for blasphemy in Sudan after naming a teddy bear Mohammed.
The saga of the teddy bear is really a story of a scapegoat and of cynical political manipulation... [...]
The British teacher who let her pupils call a teddy bear Mohammed escaped a flogging yesterday - but must now endure 15 days in a notorious Sudan jail.
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan set the scene for the arrest and detention of Gillian Gibbons when on the 17th November he raised the specter of the Scandinavian cartoonist who 'Insulted' the Prophet with a series of cartoons which were considered inflammatory to all Muslims.
British teacher Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison in Sudan after she allowed her pupils to call a teddy bear Muhammad. Politicians and religious leaders gave their response to the court's decision.
A British teacher accused of insulting Muslims after her class called a teddy bear Mohammed was found guilty and jailed for 15 days, a defence lawyer said tonight. Gillian Gibbons, 54, was ordered to be deported after she had completed her sentence.
A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison after a day-long court hearing.
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