Gillian Gibbons, the mild-mannered British teacher who was imprisoned and threatened with tortuous punishment for naming a teddy bear Mohammed, is finally leaving Sudan after being granted a full presidential pardon. Sudanese president Omar al Bashir cleared the teacher after meeting two British Muslim representatives.Not surprisingly, the case had drawn two types of reaction around the world. On one hand were the appeals from many world leaders (including President Bush) for Sudan officials to back off this insanely unjust prosecution. On the other were the crazed crowds of Muslim fanatics who demanded that Allah's wrath would not be propitiated with anything less than Gibbons' execution.
One very interesting note -- Amnesty International, the supposed human rights organization who has made such waves this last year in adding the promotion of abortion to its priorities, had absolutely nothing to say about the Gillian Gibbons travesty. Absolutely nothing.
