Gibbons Freed

It's nice to start off this week with a story that bucks last week's trend of Islamic law gone out of control. The Sudanese government has pardoned and released Gillian Gibbons, the British schoolteacher who was convicted of insulting Islam by allowing her students to name the class teddy bear "Mohammed". She will be taken to the British embassy and flown back to her home country. This comes after Muslim members of the British parliament assured the president of Sudan that releasing Gibbons would garner goodwill from the international community. Of course, that goodwill is tainted after the world witnessed a flood of bloodthirsty Sudanese protesters flowing out of their mosques and into the streets of Khartoum, demanding Gibbons be executed. I suppose you win some, and you lose some. More details here.

And for those of you who read the headline to this story and expected a heartwarming tale of cuddly apes breaking the bonds of their oppressors, I apologize. Maybe next time.