Sudan President Pardons British Teacher

A British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of writing project headed home Monday after being pardoned — ending a case that set off an international outcry and angered many moderate Muslims.

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Gibbons Sought a New Challenge in Sudan

Gillian Gibbons was looking for adventure.

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Teacher Convicted in Teddy Bear Case

A Sudanese court convicted a British teacher Thursday of insulting Islam for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced her to 15 days in prison, avoiding a heavier punishment of 40 lashes. The teacher wept in court, insisting she never meant to offend.

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Should the West call for the Head of the Person who Reported Gillian Gibbons? Here's the logic behind it.

In one of the many articles about the British School Teacher, Gillian Gibbons, I wrote this comment in response to a previous comment. After I posted the comment I thought deeply about what I had written and decided that I should post it as a news opinion to a wider audience.

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So it wasn't religion at all but a disgruntled employee.

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The teacher jailed for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad will be sent back to England today.

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A British teacher locked up for naming a teddy bear Mohammed has said she will be 'sad to leave Sudan' after being granted a full presidential pardon.

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When my son was four years old I found him playing with a one-armed Action Man. I asked him what had happened to Action Man. He replied, "Aba (Daddy in Urdu) said he'd been stealing." Imran's idea of a joke.

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Hat tip to brainporn for another excellent catch: Meanwhile, hundreds of angry protesters, some waving ceremonial swords from trucks equipped with loud speakers, gathered Friday outside the presidential palace to denounce Gibbons — some calling for her execution. (cnn)

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Protesters reacted angrily on Friday after the sentencing of a Briton whose class named a teddy bear Muhammad.

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The chief defence lawyer of Gillian Gibbons - the teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed - said today he expected her to be pardoned following a visit by two British Muslim peers.

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Two Muslim peers are beginning a private bid to free a British teacher jailed in Sudan for insulting Islam. Lord Ahmed, a Labour peer, and Baroness Warsi, a Conservative peer, have arrived in Sudan to meet President Bashir in a bid to end Gillian Gibbons' ordeal.

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Protesters reacted angrily today after the sentencing of a Briton whose class named a teddy bear Muhammad.

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Hundreds of demonstrators in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, poured into the streets on Friday demanding the execution of a British teacher who was convicted of insulting Islam because her class of 7-year-olds named a teddy bear Muhammad.

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Some Islamic scholars hold to the idea that there is no need for democracy. In an Islamic state, the law is the sharia, handed down by Allah through the Prophet Mohammed. A democratic government is a means to developing laws by gathering input from the citizenry.

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The British teacher jailed in Sudan for insulting Islam by allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed has been moved to a secret location for her own safety.

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Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding clubs and knives are marching through the streets of Khartoum demanding the execution of teddy bear teacher Gillian Gibbons.

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Thousands of people are marching in Khartoum calling for British teacher Gillian Gibbons to be executed. The 54-year-old has been jailed for blasphemy in Sudan after naming a teddy bear Mohammed.

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The saga of the teddy bear is really a story of a scapegoat and of cynical political manipulation... [...]

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The British teacher who let her pupils call a teddy bear Mohammed escaped a flogging yesterday - but must now endure 15 days in a notorious Sudan jail.

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Sudanese President Whipped up Anti-Western fervour which led to School Teachers Jailing.

President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan set the scene for the arrest and detention of Gillian Gibbons when on the 17th November he raised the specter of the Scandinavian cartoonist who 'Insulted' the Prophet with a series of cartoons which were considered inflammatory to all Muslims.

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British teacher Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison in Sudan after she allowed her pupils to call a teddy bear Muhammad. Politicians and religious leaders gave their response to the court's decision.

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A British teacher accused of insulting Muslims after her class called a teddy bear Mohammed was found guilty and jailed for 15 days, a defence lawyer said tonight. Gillian Gibbons, 54, was ordered to be deported after she had completed her sentence.

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A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison after a day-long court hearing.

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British teacher Gillian Gibbons has appeared before a Sudanese court charged with insulting religion and inciting hatred by naming a teddy bear Mohammed.

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British Schoolteacher Charged with Inciting Hatred and Insulting The Prophet! - Khartoum

British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons has been charged with inciting hatred and insulting the prophet Muhammad. She has been held in a police cell in Khartoum, Sudan for days and has had access to British consulate officials. Gillian Gibbons held a contest in her school class for …

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A British teacher at a high school in Sudan, Gillian Gibbons, 54, was arrested on blasphemy charges for allowing her six- and seven-year-old students to name a class teddy bear "Mohammed," says the Telegraph.

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A British teacher arrested in Sudan on blasphemy charges faces a second day of interrogation after being grilled for five hours yesterday.

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