Relgious Nuts On The Loose!
I don’t know if you have been following the news recently but there is a British woman called Gillian Gibbons, who has been in prison in Sudan for about 7 days. She has been released today following a pardon by the President Omar al-Bashir. She was originally going to get 50 lashes followed by several years in prison. This was then reduced to 15 days after she was convicted in court of the crime she committed. After two British Mulsim peers went over to Sudan to talk to Omar al-Bashir she was then given a full pardon and is now on her way home. About bloody time really! It should never have happened in the first place.
So why was she in prison? Well she is a school teacher, and after asking the children that she was teaching what they should call the class teddy bear, the name "Muhammad" was chosen. She was then arrested for "insulting Islam".
That’s it. There is nothing more than that. Pathetic.
I have been seeing newspaper reports over the weekend with the front page titles of "KILL HER KILL HER". It seems like not so much the reasoned response of a civilised nation, more the coarse mutterings of some half-demented, stone-age, brainwashed fool. Yet another reason why I find religion distasteful. Islam is definitely a rediculous affair and should be banned worldwide, along with every religion. And before you start saying things like "you shouldn’t mock closely held beliefs" or some dumb rubbish like, that I will say this. If someone came up to me and denounced my beliefs (or lack of them) I would enjoy the discussion. The second you even slightly hint at an Islamic person that they are wrong they start talking about beheading people and then run up and down the streets setting fire to flags. Does this seem disproportionate? Maybe just a little bit!
The only thing I wonder is what it must be like for the people who actually live there. How many people have been beaten or imprisoned wrongly because they walked across the street in the wrong way? I think Sudan, and the rest of the Islamic world, should take a long, hard look at themselves.
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