Friday, November 2, 2007

Sudanese justice?

Memo to self: Do not go to any country ruled under sharia.

Facing 40 Lashes for 'Slur on Islam'
The Sun

The British teacher facing 40 lashes in Sudan for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed had told friends how she was loving her life in the country.

Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old described as "timid and polite," has been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam's prophet.

The teacher, from Liverpool, let her class of seven-year-olds choose the teddy's name as part of a project at Unity High School in Sudan's capital Kharourm.

She was said to be "deeply distressed" in a police cell last night after learning that she faces the barbaric lashing under the Muslim state's strict sharia law.

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