Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Sudanese Steamer

A nice, huge, symmetrically-side-winding stinker!

"Teacher exits Sudan with pardon in teddy bear case" by Alfred de Montesquiou/Associated Press December 4, 2007

KHARTOUM, Sudan - A British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of writing project headed home yesterday after being pardoned - ending a case that set off an international outcry and angered many Muslims.

The incident was the latest in a tense relationship between the West and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, an Islamic hard-liner who has been accused by the United Nations of impeding the deployment of peacekeepers to the country's war-torn Darfur region.

What Britain and Gillian Gibbons' supporters said was a misunderstanding over the teddy bear escalated into a diplomatic flap between London and Khartoum - and a show of outrage in Sudan that puzzled many in the West.

Hard-line Muslim clerics here denounced Gibbons, saying she aimed to insult Islam. A day after her Thursday trial, several thousand Sudanese massed in central Khartoum to demand that Gibbons be executed. Many of the demonstrators carried swords and clubs."

Yeah, this was ALL ABOUT POLITICS!

And yet, the Zionist War Papers gave it a lot of play.

Who did Israel kill yesterday, shitters?

How Palestinians are in their jails?

How many Hamas lawmakers (who were elected)?

I'm waiting, stink press!