CNN reports, Gillian Gibbons, a British school teacher working in Sudan, has been charged under Article 125 of Sudan’s constitution with offending religion and inciting hatred.
As part of a class project, Gibbons asked her students to pick their favorite name for a teddy bear, the new class mascot. They chose the name Mohammed.
Within the Islamic faith, it is considered highly offensive to depict likenesses of Allah and the Prophet Mohammed.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband called Gibbons’ actions an “innocent misunderstanding,” but evidence suggests otherwise as it is believed Gibbons named the class goldfish Buddha, and that students may not use the bathroom without the Jesus Christ hall pass.
Gibbons could receive a hefty fine, up to a year in prison, or as many as 40 lashings.
I reckon forty lashes would have been a better punishment than a mere 15 days in jail, if she’d had a choice - a few blooded photos might have far more effectively helped wake people up to what Shari’a is all about.
I suppose it would depend upon the lashing implement, and where (on the body) the lashings struck. 40 lashings with a small handkerchief would probably be real annoying, but certainly tolerable. 40 lashings with splintery branch on the other hand…
One must take into considerations the accommodations of the jail as well. What’s worse than 15 nights with an itchy blanket on a stiff mattress?
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