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Article: The last word.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)(British teacher Gillian Gibbons case on insulting religion in Khartoum, Sudan)
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 2008
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Last month, British teacher Gillian Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in prison by a court in Khartoum after being found 'guilty of insulting religion' because her class of seven-year-old children named a teddy bear Mohammed. Although many British 'Muslim leaders' criticised the Sudanese authorities for bringing the charge in the first place, the condemnation by Muslims of the Khartoum government--with its appalling record on human rights should have been much stronger.
Since, for generations, millions of Muslim children have given their dolls, pets and soft toys Muslim names, including those of the prophet, his mother, daughters ...
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Article: Gillian Gibbons case threw up some ...
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);
December 7, 2007 ;
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...I FIND it interesting in the case of Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed for the teddy bear naming incident in the Sudan, that no-one has screamed the words racial discrimination as in the case of the Aberdare schoolgirl ...
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