03 December 2007

Gillian Gibbons pardoned

The BBC has just reported that Gillian Gibbons has been released from prison in Sudan. She was pardoned by President Omar al-Bashir after a meeting with two British Muslim peers, Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi.


Ms Gibbons did nothing to offend Islam. She should never have been imprisoned in the first place. It's good to see some sense.in what has been a ridiculous case.

9 comments:

Roland Dodds said...

This whole story is so out of this world, it is hard to imagine any country having such foolish and totalitarian laws.

Siani said...

Great news. This case should simply never have happened. I'm glad they've been persuaded to see sense.

jams o donnell said...

Agreed it has been such a stupid afair. I'm glad it's over

Frank Partisan said...

She luckily had international support. That makes a difference.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

I am relieved to hear this. The poor lady has just been used for political ends. I do think she was ill-advised, or more to the point, not advised, by the school, though.

jams o donnell said...

I have no doubt of that Ren.

Again I would imagine that is true too. I'm surprised someone in the school didn't pick up and suggest that this might be a problem no matter ridiculous it may seem.

beakerkin said...

Roland

It is easy to imagine countries having such absurd laws. This is a classic example of dhimmi laws. All
of us know that Jim Crow, colonialism
and slavery are wrong. The usual suspects seem to ignore these problems when presented in an Islamic context.

Most of us are familiar with the history of Western colonialism. Yet the very same people feign ignorance about Islamic colonialism.

Jams the above does not describe you,nor to a lesser degree Beatroot.

elasticwaistbandlady said...

My Papi has an intriguing theory about all this hullabaloo(you're English so I feel I can bandy that word about!) I think it would be controversial so I won't write it here. Beakerkin is fairly close to his thoughts, though. Papi thinks this was a set-up pure and simple.

jams o donnell said...

I think it may possibly be the case that someone was looking for an excuse to heap trouble on the scholl. It is pretty far fron being a hardline Madrassa and I daresay there are quite a few who would love to see it closed