Ms Gibbons Heads Back Home

Posted on December 3, 2007
Filed Under Sudan, Religion, Bashir, Retards, Culture, Intoxication, Yaaaay!, UK |

Finally! I’m glad she’ll soon be reunited with her loved ones.

While watching this video of the Sudanese minister of foreign affairs speaking about the pardon (yeah, as if she did something wrong), he made an interesting comment which caught my ears.

He was basically saying that they expect to be treated back in the same manner in regards to Muslim Sudanese citizens all over the world locked up unfairly without trial. It’s a hint to Sami al-Hajj and other Sudanese locked up in Guantanamo. Clever.

It looks like al-Bashir could manage to deflect the anger of the hardliners quite well by positioning his act as one supposedly made on the condition for a potential future exchange for the release of Sudanese like Sami al-Hajj.

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12 Responses to “Ms Gibbons Heads Back Home”

  1. Dalu on December 3rd, 2007 9:13 pm

    It was interesting while it lasted.
    Now I have nothing to keep me entertained. :’|

  2. Danial on December 3rd, 2007 9:16 pm

    At least the rest of the Muslim world didn’t follow suit.

    Red eye for Bashir indeed.

  3. Aaron Stewart on December 3rd, 2007 10:52 pm

    Drima I think your analogy while insightful is like comparing teddy bears to car bombs.

  4. Tiffany on December 4th, 2007 3:35 am

    Hi there.

    I am a student at the University of Minnesota in the USA. I am a journalism student and am required to write a story on Beirut. I am just trying to get a hold of anyone I can from Beirut so I can talk to them about how the war with Israel effects you on a daily basis, or if it effects you at all? I would be very greatful for any response you could give me. Thanks so much for your time. Please e-mail me at tarr0011@umn.edu.

    Thanks again!

    Tiffany

  5. tommy on December 4th, 2007 9:17 am

    They won’t have Mohammad the Mole to kick around anymore either:

    A British children’s author who called one of his characters Mohammed the Mole to promote multiculturalism has renamed him Morgan so as not to offend Muslims.

    Kes Gray said the case of British teacher Gillian Gibbons, who has been jailed in Sudan for allowing her class of primary school children to name a teddy bear Mohammed, had prompted him to postpone a reprint of his book, Who’s Poorly Too, and change the name.

    Morgan: a multicultural name if I ever heard one.

  6. Andrew Brehm on December 4th, 2007 12:11 pm

    The protesters and their stupid government have essentially made the name “Muhammed” a taboo.

    “Taboos, we must suppose, are prohibitions of primæval antiquity which were at some time externally imposed upon a generation of primitive men; they must, that is to say, no doubt have been impressed on them violently by the previous generation. These prohibitions must have concerned activities towards which there was a strong inclination. They must then have persisted from generation to generation, perhaps merely as a result of tradition transmitted through parental and social authority.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo#Sigmund_Freud

    I think it is quite possible that the activity for which there was a strong inclination was that of studying Islam and Muhammed’s life. It doesn’t seem to me that there is a lot of actual “studying” going on in the Islamic world, so Muhammed has become a taboo. At the moment the taboo seems to be applied only to “non-Muslims”; the subconcious fear is probably that if non-Muslims come to close to Islam, they will learn that the so-called “Muslims” believe in complete nonsense, not Islam.

    In any given society there are usually three types of taboos:

    You do not directly refer to a higher being. This affects G-d or idols (like Muhammed for some).

    You do not directly refer to a demonic being or bad thing. This affects characters like the devil or practices like incest.

    And you do not directly refer to something controversial. This affects subjects like abortion, politics, religion, depending on how un-enlightened society is.

    Those protesters treat Muhammed with the same respect as believers treat G-d and the same disrespect as other people treat incest.

    They idolise him and will not accept that for others he is just a man.

    And seeing what they believe Muhammed told them to do, the idea that the taboo here is one of not mentioning a demon cannot be rejected off hand.

    We have here a group of people who idolise a human being and are willing to murder those who refuse to participate in the idolatry.

    Idolatry is not forbidden because G-d fears competition. It is forbidden because it is physically bad for people, even in a world without any gods.

    Societies that practice such idolatry are generally primitive, usually poor, and always without much influence in the world.

    Compare them to the Muslims of 800 years ago or the Jews of today (or the Christians or atheists and secular people today) and you will see that idolatry is the greatest sin indeed.

  7. dalu on December 4th, 2007 4:09 pm

    hmm, Andrew, interesting points. :’|

  8. Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » A few links on December 4th, 2007 4:16 pm

    […] has released the teacher with the teddy bear named Muhammed. Drima, The Sudanese Thinker, comments. While watching this video of the Sudanese minister of foreign affairs speaking about the pardon […]

  9. Asma Ana on December 4th, 2007 11:17 pm

    Hey,

    This is totally unrelated, but whatever happened to Dalu’s blog?

  10. Sheema on December 5th, 2007 1:11 am

    Umm yeah actually I’ve been wondering what happened to Dalu too…

  11. TI3GIB on December 5th, 2007 3:28 pm

    I feel sorry for the Sudani Government who felt that they’re somewhat less in a way than the UK one. I’m not ratifying their decision on jailing Dumbings, but rather for their lack of recognition of the authority of Law.

    As for all the defenders of the this news. Shame on You.

  12. Andrew Brehm on December 5th, 2007 3:43 pm

    TI3GIB,

    I don’t understand. Can you elaborate?

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