Where is the REAL Crisis in Sudan Today?

The Alleged Accused “Inciter of Religious Hatred” –

British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons (Unity High School-Khartoum)

At the center of the controversy:

*The classroom teddy bear that shall remain nameless here*

Gibbons, 54, was teaching her pupils, who are around age 7, about animals and asked one of them to bring in her teddy bear, Boulos said. She asked the students to pick names for it and they proposed Abdullah, Hassan and Muhammad, and in the end the pupils voted to name it Muhammad, he said.

Each child was allowed to take the bear home on weekends and write a diary about what they did with it. The diary entries were collected in a book with the bear’s picture on the cover, labeled, “My Name is Muhammad,” he said. The bear itself was never labeled with the name, he added.

Meanwhile, the REAL crisis that is Darfur continues

unabated and, in fact, encouraged since 2003…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfuri_genocide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7095732.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7063331.stm

Who can stop it? Not the United Nations.

Only this guy:

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir

http://hrw.org/reports/2005/darfur1205/7.htm

Withdraw financial support from the Janjaweed, al-Bashir,

and stop allowing them to operate under impunity!

Maybe some of the Sudanese have sought out a pious-seeming, faith-based cause to divert their own attention from the horrible tragedies that are occurring around them to reassert their conscience as a people. It’s understandable sociological displacement:

Defence mechanism that shifts…aggressive impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening target; redirecting emotion to a safer outlet; separation of emotion from its real object and redirection of the intense emotion toward someone or something that is less offensive or threatening in order to avoid dealing directly with what is frightening or threatening.

And there is no denying that the Sudanese are indeed traumatized under the current conditions in which they live. So how to solve the problems they face? In executing a British schoolteacher who unknowingly offended the Muslim faith?

I would think that the God of Islam objects much more strongly to the murders of thousands of innocents, the genocide of souls created by Him, and the displacement and shattered futures of real people much more so than any sacrilege resulting from an inanimate object of affection being named after one of His prophets.

Cited: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-sudan-british-teacher,0,4251180.story

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/news/ny-wosuda305482037nov30,0,6206245.story

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~ by Galvanized on November 30, 2007.