this would have been an act of war, and the British Empire would have acted accordingly.
A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was arrested at at Khartoum’s Unity High School yesterday, and accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam.
Her colleagues said that they feared for her safety after reports that groups of young men had gathered outside the Khartoum police station where she was taken and were shouting death threats.
Sadly,
The British Embassy in Khartoum said that it was still unclear whether Gibbons had been charged formally. “We are following it up with the authorities and trying to meet her in person,” it said.
If the Brits — or pardon me, if their government — had any balls, the SAS would be getting this lady out, and that soon. And any crowd of hotheaded ragheads who tried to get in their way would be receiving their 72 raisins in a place they richly deserve to enter. Hint: It wouldn’t be Paradise.