Sarcasm is one of my favorite styles of humour so don't worry I got it, brought a smile to my face and all.

You obviously feel similar to me about the world. No one has all the answers, all we can do is respect each other enough. A good person is a good person no matter what colour or creed they speak about.

except New Zealanders, they be evil spawn I tell ya!!! :rotfl:

It's not too long ago that we where burning Catholics at the stake.

It isn't an excuse, but don't think we are different, we just have a different culture here
now, which they do not yet.

Some are asking for execution! A bit over the edge for me:down: I'm really sensing a mountain out of a mole hill here.

Dang political correctness

BREAKING NEWS

Gillian Gibbons has been found guilty of inciting religious hatred and has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation.

That is probably the greatest kindness she could have hoped for. Particularly the deportation part. She's British, she should be where she belongs. Here.

Well, that is nice news to hear. I hope 4 of those days already served are part of the 15 day term. Deportation sounds good. I would be leaving pronto:lurk:

Am I the only one who thinks the verdict was fair and justified?

Let me start by saying that, as far as I'm concerned, there should be no law regarding 'insult to religion', except possibly in the case of inciting hatred (although I've not yet made up my mind on that).

However, such a law does exist in Sudan and the legal authorities there have decided that Mrs Gibbons broke it. As such, they have no option but to punish her. I think they've been very reasonable in only sentencing her to 15 days and deportation.

The UK government has no right to interfere in the legal proceedings of other nations, so they should keep their noses out. Of course, it's the trendy thing to jump on the bandwagon and condemn the judgement without considering that the laws of a nation have been broken. By all means protest the existence of the law, but don't complain when it is enforced.

The atrocity which is Darfur hasn't stopped these folks. Why would the British Government have any more influence (perhaps it did). The lady is indeed lucky to get the fifteen day sentence. The deportation is a blessing.

Gotta' disagree with that one. Nazi Germany declared it legal for the state to kill off an entire race of people. Should all we have done is merely protest the existence of the law, but allowed its enforcement to continue?

There are times when a state's laws cross boundaries that are deemed unacceptable, and it is the right of every affected state to then step in and act on the behalf of their own citizens. It's not only a state's right to do so, but it's their responsibility, if the values they and their society hold regarding basic human rights, decency and fair and just treatment mean anything to them.

In this case, the punishment, by most western cultural' standards, far exceeded the crime. Just as we would deplore cutting off the hands of petty thieves, we should protest the flogging or other extreme violent punishment for a crime of insult, where no permanent nor lasting harm has been done, and no physical or direct harm to any specific victim was committed.

It wasn't the crime that was being protested, it was the extreme punishment, and that was fair game for the UK Government to step in on, on behalf of one of their citizens.

The comments of a fellow muslim on a muslim forum sum it up for me best:

That's all for now before I tear anymore of my hair out. :damn:

That does make logical sense.
However, if follows from that that if we do not wish to tolerate the law, we should not
tolerate it's use; to do so would be hypocritical.

It's a case of the proverbial bolted horse now.

Haha that's great.

Good news about the court case, but I still think it should have never happened. A sign of improvement maybe, these things don't happen over night afterall. It wasn't long ago where segregation was common place in many of our own countries, now the idea of that is just as wrong as being whipped for naming a teddy bear after a diety.

The 5 days she has already served will be considered part of her sentance, so she has 10 days to go.

I'm glad she got out of it as lightly as she did, but I think Sudan will suffer more for it overall.