To be filed under WTF, part the second
Posted at 16:18:43
on Fri, November 30th 2007 by graham
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So, as a follow-up to yesterday's post, this just in from the BBC (link):
Crowds of people have marched in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to call for UK teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot.
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According to some agencies, some of the protesters chanted: "Shame, shame on the UK", "No tolerance - execution" and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad".
One demonstrator told reporters that it was unacceptable to take a toy and call it Muhammad.
"We can't accept it from anybody. Even if they can do that in Europe, they cannot do it here in Sudan. We ask our rulers and judges to review what they have said. Fifteen days is not enough."
I have no words, really. But once again:
The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (Fosis), which represents more than 90,000 Muslim students in the UK and Ireland, said it was "deeply concerned" at what was a "gravely disproportionate" verdict.
The federation's president, Ali Alhadithi, said: "What we have here is a case of cultural misunderstandings, and the delicacies of the matter demonstrate that it was not the intention of Gillian Gibbons to imply any offence against Islam or Muslims.
Which shows that you don't have to be a nutter to be religious. But I can't help thinking that Stephen Fry was right when he said: "Religion. Shit it."
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