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QatarChic
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| What would Qatarchic suggest ? A gunboat ? A nuke on Khartoum ? |
Wouldn't go that far scot. But Gordon is pretty spineless to say the least. |
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steppy-boy
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| I hate to say it but the "real" problem is Islam folks. Just go to: www.faithfreedom.com. Events like this are actually very common in the Muslim world. An Iranian professor was fired because he dared to question why a student in his class was wearing the niqab. An Indian was nearly killed by an angry mob because he accidently dropped a copy of the Koran. Hundreds of such cases ar occuring every year. Up to a 100 women were murdered in Iraq because they weren't wearing the head-scarf or shayla. |
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Hiawatha
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According to "The Daily Mail" the school is owned by Christians.......
could this be a reason why the school did not support her enough and
take care of the situation better?
(This school has both Christian and Muslim students). |
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Stephen Jones
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The school has backed the teacher up to the hilt. It is refusing to open until she is freed, among other things.
Why do you say it is not backing her up? |
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veiledsentiments
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I assume that they closed more out of fear than anything else. The headmaster even sort of said that they were closing until after the first of the year to avoid problems. I never read in any of the articles that they had closed as a protest against her arrest.
Personally I was glad to see that cooler heads prevailed. It was allowed to go through the legal process and diplomacy took care of it. As always a more sensible approach that saber rattling and governments making threats that bring them down to the level of the mobs.
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I never read in any of the articles that they had closed as a protest against her arrest. |
That's what I've been told by my contact there. The decision came from the Anglican Archbishop who's the head of the School Board. |
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omanized
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Good thing she was pardoned - makes the country seem sensible at least in part.
And Steppy-boy, grow yourself a brain and try to sift through the crap out there regarding the 'threat' of Islam and it's oppression of the world - only an idiot would make a statement like that without considering the myriad of factors that make simple people like these mobs in Khartoum shout and chant for the cameras.
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MODS, sorry about the personal attack but comments like those are better placed at neo-con blogs and Republican news forums |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I never read in any of the articles that they had closed as a protest against her arrest. |
That's what I've been told by my contact there. The decision came from the Anglican Archbishop who's the head of the School Board. |
The point is that the Sudanese government would merely yawn in boredom if they even noticed such a "protest." The fact that there was no publicity of this so-called protest suggests that it was something suggested for the audience back home - to make the closure appear to be an act of bravery.
The headmaster's comments made much more sense... good common sense... with student and staff protection the goal.
Good to read this morning that she is back home. By the time the school re-opens all should have been forgotten - by the mobs that is - and they will be on to the next trumped up issue...
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Geronimo
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Congratulations to the Muslim peers, Baroness Warsi and Lord Ahmed!
It is thanks to their patient and unselfish efforts that Gillian Gibbons is back in her home city of Liverpool, City of Culture 2008.
Also, IMHO, the way the Gibbons family has conducted itself during this crisis derserves a lot of respect. In her statements today, for example, Gillian praised the Sudanese people for their kindness.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7126162.stm
Shame about the other 2.5 miliion displaced people, though...
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