The Religion Of Peace: Off With Her Head!

Thousands of sword-wielding, hate-spewing Muslims are protesting in Sudan, demanding that Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who allowed her students to name a Teddy bear Mohammed, be executed.

We cannot allow anything bad to be said about He Who Is Too Lame To Be Insulted! Kill her!

I made that up. Here's what they really were chanting:

"No tolerance: Execution,"

"Kill her, kill her by firing squad."

"Those who insult the Prophet of Islam should be punished with bullets."

Check out the photos posted at The Daily Mail and shudder. This face of Islam, of brutality and intolerance, is our enemy. Sudan gave cover to Osama bin Laden for years, and in the country's response to the Gibbons affair, we see why.

Gibbons now faces 15 days in the Khartoum's squalid Omdurman women's prison, which was built for 200 and now houses about 1,500. The Mail described it as "massively overcrowded and infested with mosquitoes."

It may also be infested with radical Islamists, so Gibbons is by no means safe within its walls.

hat-tip: memeorandum

Teddy Mohammed Teacher Jailed

A Sudanese judge has ordered British teacher Gillian Gibbons to jail for 15 days after her schoolchildren named a teddy bear Mohammed.

Gibbons faced a year in jail and 40 lashes for her inadvertent insulting of He Who Isn't Tough Enough To Take A Joke. Still, in a just society where the dominant religion isn't paranoid and intolerant, she would have walked.

One, and only one, good thing came of this story: Muslims in Britain lobbied hard for Gibbons' release and professed disappointment that she was jailed. Reports the NYT:

"I'm utterly disappointed with this decision. We have been calling on the Sudanese authorities to show leniency, that this was a case of an innocent oversight, a misunderstanding, and there was no need for this to ... be escalated ..." said Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain, the country's largest Muslim organisation.

"We are very hopeful that perhaps the appeals process will be more successful", he added.

"The question that I would want the judiciary there and the authorities to ponder over is: How does this help the cause of Islam? What kind of message and image are we portraying about our religion and our culture?"

Indeed, Ibrahim, indeed. Now perhaps you can ask the same question of your Palestinian brothers who insist on firing rockets into Israel and your Iranian brothers who profess their wish to wipe Israel off the face of the planet, and your terrorist brothers who want to kill us all in the name of Islam.

How does their behavior help the cause of Islam? What kind of message and image are they portraying of your religion and your culture?

hat-tip: Real Clear Politics