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Wednesday 28 November 2007

More on Gillian Gibbons

Please use this to register your views on the charging of Gillian Gibbons with "insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs."

A key passage from the BBC report is this (my comments in italics):

"Sudan's top clerics have called for the full measure of the law to be used against Mrs Gibbons and labelled her actions part of a Western plot against Islam."

"What has happened was not haphazard or carried out of ignorance, but rather a calculated action and another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam," the Sudanese Assembly of the Ulemas said a statement."

She's a teacher, the children were in primary school, it was a teddy bear - yes it's all a plot - maybe she was Jewish!


"The semi-official clerics body is considered relatively moderate and is believed to have the ear of the Sudanese government."

That's one of the problems; the people calling for these charges to be brought are "relatively moderate" - can you imagine what the hardliners want?

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