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Duffy · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 449 Location: Oman

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=497490&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

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QatarChic · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 445 Location: Qatar

I left a comment here

http://sudan-embassy.co.uk/en/component/option,com_contact/ampItemid,3/

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK

This poor woman will now have a criminal record which could bar her from ever teaching again, either in the UK or overseas. Yet the school director classed her as " a marvellous teacher". How sad!

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veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

After Friday prayers, there were huge demonstrations in Khartoum wanting her killed by firing squad for her crime. I found this in an article in the Guardian this morning:

It had emerged earlier in the day that complaints about naming the teddy bear Muhammad had come from a fellow member of staff at the exclusive Unity high school where Gibbons worked.

Teachers and clergy from the school's board turned up at court to support Gibbons. Robert Boulos, the school's director, said education ministry officials had originally told him that parents had complained about the naming of the bear. But, he said: "Today I heard that it was a member of the school staff. I was horrified."

The complainant was named as Sara Khawad, an office assistant at the school, who was the key prosecution witness.

Duffy · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 449 Location: Oman

Looked like a "simple" case of jealousy? Simple as it sounds, yet oh so true of other much less talented "teachers" who cannot abide to see someone doing better than them - Classic case.

Personal opinion:

This lady, Gillian Gibbons, has had to suffer the "slings and arrows" of somebody elses "discontent". Regrettably as she was an infidel, she had no defence, so it seems in Sharia law.

So the mob rule wins again. The person who made the complaint " Sara Khawad" obviously knew what the reaction would be. In my honest opinion, she also knew that she would gain some Kudos by "outing" Mrs Gibbons to those who are more "active" with regards to the teaching of an infidel language.

Whatever her reasons, Sara Khawad will forever be branded as a selfish person who sought to destroy a talented teacher because of the ineptitude she herself suffered from.

As of this day, she will have to live with the utter contempt due to her.

Look at this!! it is what she has generated!!!!!!!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=497490&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

Any one else care to comment??

Duffy

QatarChic · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 445 Location: Qatar

How can you even start to comment on a group of people who choose to protest in this barbaric way? wielding knives? making death threats? I am sorry but I think this whole thing has got completely out of control. Just beyond comprehension. Nothing surprises me though. This comes from a country that allows thousands of women to be raped in Darfur and to have their villages burned down. It was clearly an innocent mistake on Gillian's behalf. As a Brit I am disgusted that our government isn't doing more to help this poor woman.

eha · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 355 Location: ME

Mob rule is right. Enlightened Sudanese are trying to make their voices heard, but, as in Europe in the Dark Ages, the voice of reason isn't usually the one that gets heard in the short run:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7121025.stm