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 Re: The Islamic Society of Britain:TEDDY BEAR MADNESS - A POLITICAL FOOTBALL (Re: Mohamed Omer)
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'Blasphemy' teacher appears in court
David Batty and agencies
Thursday November 29, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
A British primary school teacher appeared in a Sudanese court today after being charged with "insulting religion and inciting hatred" for allowing children in her class to name a
teddy bear Muhammad
Khalid al-Mubarak, a spokesman for the Sudanese embassy in London, said today it was "unlikely" Gibbons would be convicted
She had one of the best solicitors in Sudan - Tijani al-Karib - and could appeal if found guilty, he said.
Mubarak said naming the teddy bear Muhammad seemed to have been an "honest mistake".
He told BBC Breakfast News: "It should have been discussed at school level but there was a complaint from some irate parents who pressed the case and it went to the ministry of education."
Asked if he thought Gibbons would be able to return to Britain soon, he said: "This is my hope and my prayer"
A British embassy spokesman, Omar Daair, said the school had provided Gibbons's legal defence and translators
Sudan's top clerics, known as the assembly of the Ulemas, said in a statement on Wednesday that parents had handed them a book the teacher was assembling about the bear. "She, in a very abusive manner, used the name of Prophet Muhammad, may Allah shame her," the statement said
Unity's directors have shut the school to avoid protests like those that greeted the publication of notorious cartoons of the Muslim prophet in a Danish newspaper last year
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Mohamed Omer
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