British School Teacher Released
The British schoolteacher who was arrested and convicted in Sudan recently – her students named a stuffed animal “Mohammed” – has been released. The Sudanese president pardoned her earlier today.
President Omar al-Bahir’s pardon of Gillian Gibbons allowed her to leave prison before the end of her 15-day sentence, and ended a diplomatic tangle with what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a victory for “common sense.”
Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, the county’s largest Muslim organization called Gibon’s release “wonderful news” but added: “This case has done quite a bit of damage to how the Sudanese government will be perceived; they have done their country no favors.”
That sounds like an understatement to me. The entire world basically can’t stop laughing. Sure, people were outraged, but most of all, Westerners simply think it’s ludicrous that Gibbons was prosecuted in the first place.
More at Hot Air, the Corner, Jules Crittenden and Jihad Watch.
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I guess no one was very impressed by the size of the scimitars all those puppies was waving about.