The Brittle Culture of Islam by Robert Spencer

Mothers, cover your childrens’ eyes: Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old British schoolteacher working in Sudan, has allowed the children in her class to name a teddy bear…Muhammad.  The Sudanese government’s reaction teaches us a lesson about the weapon we most neglect in the ideological war with radical Islam. 

Gibbons’ blasphemy couldn’t go unpunished. She was sentenced to fifteen days in prison and deportation, but mobs in Khartoum wanted more: on Friday they burned photos of Gibbons and called for her blood while chanting, “Shame, shame on the UK”; “No tolerance – execution”; and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.”  A delegation of British Muslims – having met with the Sudanese – apparently expects her to be pardoned. 

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