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Article: Save my teacher from 40 lashes; (1) Child's play: But a bear has caused trouble (2) Accused of insulting Islam: Gillian Gibbons.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2007
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Byline: Olinka Koster, Liz Hull
A BOY of seven taught by the British woman who is facing 40 lashes fornaming a teddy bear Mohammed said yesterday: 'It's all my fault.' The pupilspoke as Gillian Gibbons, 54, prepared to spend a third night in a Khartoumjail cell without being formally charged.
Mrs Gibbons, who moved to the Sudanese capital in August to take up theteaching post, was arrested on Sunday after complaints that she had insultedIslam's Prophet by choosing to name the bear Mohammed.
She had been using the toy as part of an infant school project.
However, her pupil insisted Mrs Gibbons had not intended to insult Islam - andthat ...