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The Sudanese teddy bear circus

Started by alistairpott · 9 months ago

You may well have heard about the British volunteer teacher Gillian Gibbons who has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation from Sudan because she allowed her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. She was convicted of “insulting religion” because any depictions ... Continue reading »

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  • If you think that is crazy, what about the Saudi woman who was gang-raped, and then SHE was sentenced to 200 lashes with a whip! (Because she was walking in the street with a man who was not her husband. Her husband objects to the sentence, because he says she did no wrong.)
  • Yeah that one was CRAZY! I blogged about it here.

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