ISLAMIC CRAZE WATCH:Calls in Sudan for execution of Briton

KHARTOUM,Sudan-[[[Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and """"demanded the execution"""" of a British teacher convicted of """"insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Muhammad."""""]]]The protesters streamed out of mosques after Friday sermons, as {{{pickup trucks with loudspeakers blared messages against Gillian Gibbons,}}} the teacher who was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation. She avoided the more serious punishment of 40 lashes.They massed in central Martyrs Square outside the presidential palace, where hundreds of riot police were deployed. [[[[They did not try to stop the rally, which lasted about an hour.]]]][[["Shame, shame on the U.K.,"]]] protesters chanted.They called for Gibbons' execution, saying, [[["No tolerance: Execution," and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad.]]]"The women's prison where Gibbons is being held is far from the square.Several hundred protesters, not openly carrying weapons, marched about a mile away to Unity High School, where Gibbons worked. They chanted slogans outside the school, which is closed and under heavy security, then marched toward the nearby British Embassy.They were stopped by security forces two blocks away from the embassy.The protest arose despite vows by Sudanese security officials the day before, during Gibbons' trial, that threatened demonstrations after Friday prayers would not take place. [[[Some of the protesters carried green banners with the name of the Society for Support of the Prophet Muhammad, a previously unknown group.]]]Many protesters carried clubs, knives and axes-but not automatic weapons, which some have brandished at past government-condoned demonstrations.That suggested Friday's rally was not organized by the government.[[[[A Muslim cleric at Khartoum's main Martyrs Mosque denounced Gibbons during one sermon, saying [she intentionally insulted Islam.]]]]] He did not call for protests, however.{{{{{"Imprisoning this lady{ does not satisfy the thirst of Muslims in Sudan.} we welcome imprisonment and expulsion,"}e cleric, Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri, a well-known hard-liner, told worshippers.}}}}[is an arrogant woman who came to our country, cashing her salary in dollars, teaching our children hatred of our Prophet Muhammad,"]hesaid.Britain, meanwhile, pursued diplomatic moves to free Gibbons. Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke with a member of her family to convey his regret, his spokeswoman said."He set out his concern and the fact that we were doing all we could to secure her release," spokeswoman Emily Hands told reporters.Most Britons expressed shock at the verdict by a court in Khartoum, alongside hope it would not raise tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain."One of the good things is the U.K. Muslims who've condemned the charge as completely out of proportion," said Paul Wishart, 37, a student in London."In the past, people have been a bit upset when different atrocities have happened and there hasn't been much voice in the U.K. Islamic population, whereas with this, they've quickly condemned it."Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, accused the Sudanese authorities of "gross overreaction.""This case should have required only simple common sense to resolve. It is unfortunate that the Sudanese authorities were found wanting in this most basic of qualities," he said.The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, a political advocacy group, said the prosecution was "abominable and defies common sense."Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, said Gibbons' prosecution and conviction was "an absurdly disproportionate response to what is at worst a cultural faux pas."Foreign Secretary David Miliband summoned the Sudanese ambassador late Thursday to express Britain's disappointment with the verdict. The Foreign Office said Britain would continue diplomatic efforts to achieve "a swift resolution" to the crisis.Gibbons was arrested Sunday after another staff member at the school complained that she had allowed her 7-year-old students to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Giving the name of the Muslim prophet to an animal or a toy could be considered insulting.The case put Sudan's government in an embarrassing position — facing the anger of Britain on one side and potential trouble from powerful Islamic hard-liners on the other. Many saw the 15-day sentence as an attempt to appease both sides.In The Times, columnist Bronwen Maddox said the verdict was "something of a fudge ... designed to give a nod to British reproof but also to appease the street."Britain's response — applying diplomatic pressure while extolling ties with Sudan and affirming respect for Islam — had produced mixed results, British commentators concluded.In an editorial, The Daily Telegraph said Miliband "has tiptoed around the case, avoiding a threat to cut aid and asserting that respect for Islam runs deep in Britain. Given that much of the government's financial support goes to the wretched refugees in Darfur and neighboring Chad, Mr. Miliband's caution is understandable."Now, however, the newspaper said, Britain should recall its ambassador in Khartoum and impose sanctions on the Sudanese regime.

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PS:We all know about the Muslim Craze fueled by the most stupidest things...
What concerns me the most is the level of brainwashing and ignorance in which Islam seems to keep it's slaves.whereas they go to the local mosque-supposedly a place of worship- and they are preached hate,blind hate,most of the times and of course these poor people take that as the ultimate word and get out of there ready to slice throats....Well after all,they don't have any security of savation or nothing and they have a bloodthirsty unmerciful god that demands a whole bunch of rites and prayers(mantras) and WORKS to TRY TO PLEASE HIM and appease him....
Can you imagine leaving a religious life like that and always falling short?Cause as it is written:"But we are all as an unclean thing,and all our righteousnesses are a sfilthy rags;and we all do fade as a leaf;and our iniquities,like the wind,have taken us away."(Isaiah 64:6)Our WORKS are FILTHY RAGS...In other words WE CAN NEVER GET INTO HEAVEN BY OUR WORKS....that's why God sent us a SAVIOUR-JESUSCHRIST-to pay the price we couldn't pay...!!!!
Please keep the people of Sudan in your prayers and the people involved in this story and the church in Sudan.....
As in the days of Noah......