Brit Muslim Member Of House Of Lords Headed To Sudan
He is headed down there to secure the release of Gillian Gibbons. An angry mob took to the streets today screaming for her execution, and Sudanese officials had to move her to a secret location for her own safety.
From Times Online:
Lord Ahmed, Britain’s first Muslim peer, is due to meet President Bashir of Sudan today in an effort to secure the release of a primary school teacher jailed for blasphemy.
A source close to the Sudanese Government said that it would consider offering Gillian Gibbons a pardon so she could fly home within days.
Ms Gibbons was being held at a secret location last night after hundreds of protesters, some of them wielding knives and ceremonial swords, called for her execution.
From her cell, the 54-year-old teacher from Liverpool said that she was devastated by the offence she had caused. “I would never insult anybody intentionally. People who know me know it’s not in my nature,” she told Kamal Djizoulli, her lawyer.
She has also appealed for tolerance, telling her son John Gibbons in a telephone conversation that she does not want “any resentment towards Muslim people”.
Mr Djizoulli revealed that she had told the judge who sentenced her to 15 days in prison that she was desperately disappointed at what had happened. “It’s very sad because I hoped coming here things would go smoothly and safely but now I’m going to have to go home,” she is quoted as saying. Mr Djizoulli said that he had visited her to give her clothes after she lost her belongings in the rush to leave court on Thursday.
After Friday prayers yesterday, about a thousand people took to the streets in the first demonstration of public anger since Ms Gibbons was convicted of allowing her class of six and seven-year-olds to name a teddy bear Mohamed.
Rest of Times Online article here.
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After Friday prayers yesterday, about a thousand people took “to the streets ”
They pray so they can act like animals … These people are used by their backward a$$ clerics…let them live as savages and get the F out of their
November 30th, 2007 at 3:29 pmAh, the traditional “Death to the Infidel” Friday sermon.
Tiny minority of extremists my ass…
November 30th, 2007 at 6:44 pm