Sudanese Insanity

Gillian Gibbons, the British teacher working in Sudan who was convicted of insulting Islam by allowing her class of seven-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been sentenced to two weeks in jail and subsequent deportation. However, the insane Muslim fanatics in Sudan (like the school employee who ratted Gibbons out, marched in the streets of Khartoum today, brandishing clubs and knives and shouting for Gibbons' execution. A telling note in this story concerns the fact that these protesters swarmed out of their mosques and into the streets after being stirred up by their local bloodthirsty clerics. If there's somewhere Islam is a religion of peace, it's not in Sudan. More details here.