This is not the first case we have seen of Sharia law's institutionalized inequality and draconian punishments being employed to settle a score. Indeed, unjust laws, by their very nature, often lend themselves to the designs of opportunists. This is all the more the case when one party is afforded special status under the law, as Sharia renders Islam untouchable by criticism or insults, and places Muslims over non-Muslims, and "good" Muslims over "bad" ones. And once again, in Gillian Gibbons' case, that inequity helped turn a fairly common personal spat into a matter of life and death. From CNN:
KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) -- In an effort to shut down Khartoum's Unity High School, a disgruntled former employee alerted Sudanese officials that a British teacher had allowed her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed," a British source and Sudanese presidential palace source told Time magazine's Sam Dealey.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, was convicted last week of insulting religion and sentenced to 15 days in jail and deportation. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir pardoned her from her prison sentence on Monday and she later left on a flight for England.
The two sources said Sarah Khawad was fired as the school's secretary in November after an employment spat and threatened to shut down the school.
The sources said Khawad did not appear to have a vendetta against Gibbons, but hoped that by bringing the teddy bear incident to the education minister's attention, he would close down the school for anti-Islamic teachings.
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The sources said they have confirmed the account with Gibbons.
Defense attorneys confirmed that it was Khawad who launched the initial complaint against Gibbons, not a parent as originally thought. Khawad also testified at Gibbons' trial.
Before approaching Sudan's education minister, the two sources said Khawad tried to enlist two parents, who were also teachers at the school, to join in her protest against the teddy bear's name, but they declined.
Gibbons had been working at the school -- popular with wealthy Sudanese and expatriates -- since August, after leaving her position as deputy head teacher at a primary school in Liverpool this summer, said the head of Unity High School, Robert Boulos.
It doesn't matter what sparked the crisis. The enraged, foaming-at-the-mouth over-reaction to the non-event was the real story.
Starting up a grudge. Definitely sounds like something a Muslim would go.
I just hope no one names their teddy bear Jesus, Vishnu, or Buddha.
The disgruntled secretary succeeded in shutting down the school temporarily. How long were they closed? Why did the school accept the testimony of a disgruntled former employee over that of a teacher?
How would Sarah have known that the bear was named after the brigand unless the parents themselves told her? Seems to me that some parents egged her on because they knew she would run with it. They didn't want to dirty their hands. I can bet some money that the same parents have close relations living in the West; they wouldn't want to jeopardise their darlings' prospects.
What a surprise, a disgruntled muslim acting in a petty and vindictive manner over a perceived insult, leading to an incident that could have cost someone their life. When will we infidels learn how easy it is to offend these people and get ourselves killed? When will we learn that the penalty for "insulting" a muslim is death? When will we learn to "understand" these deeply misunderstood people?
Yup, I think I am going to turn one of those gay ken dolls into a "Ken Mohammed bin Anal" teddies and sell it all over the place.
"...he would close down the school for anti-Islamic teachings...."
...and just what "anti-Islamic teachings" would a doting 54 year old Non Muslim female teacher (who obviously knows nothing about the tenets of Islam) be guilty of?......teaching English to the children?.....teaching that 2 + 2 actually does equal 4?....showing photos of real people in the real world who actually do not wear chadors, burkas or hijabs?.....telling the Children that there are people in the world who actually have a religion that has nothing to do with Islam?.....showing newspaper or magazine articles depicting photographs and reports of Muslim inspired violence?.....or maybe just reading the Kor'an and telling the children the verse that says "kill them where you find them" actually means "kill them where you find them"...
....the Muslim reaction to the naming of a cuddly teddy bear "Mohammad", clearly shows hostile and infantile minds of Muslims.....it also shows you do not want these people in your neighborhood....and a Ban on Muslim immigration is an item whose time has come....