The Atrocity Continues

Here's the latest from the Guardian Unlimited website where an ex-colleague and friend of Gillian Gibbons, the woman incarcerated for using Muhammed as the name of a teddy bear, speaks up about the growing insanity of this case. In the comment section someone writes: "May I urge posters to show restraint until this case is resolved? Anyone in Sudan with a computer, such as a government official, can read CiF." Interestingly, the moderator has gone to town over deleting people's comments here. For whatever cause the above poster reports to, I am not going to violate our right to free speech just so a bigoted, infantile individual in Sudan can have his twisted way with a respectable Western woman. People are going to look upon this case as 'us against them', which, even if we don't want it, has already been established by the Sudanese. "The police station had been surrounded by a mob baying for Gillian's blood." - All this does is confirm the observation that religion provides a canon for people's debauched blood lust. Peaceful Muslims will decry this as a misinterpretation of Islamic teachings, which, frankly, is no excuse what-so-ever. As is the case with militant Islam, they're no stranger to self-hatred, self'-pity, and self-righteousness. They're besotted with poisoning our society with their own cultish teachings, rather than keeping their beliefs to themselves. If someone wants to call the hate-speech police upon reading this, feel free, but I'm sure there's another delusional martyr willing to strap an explosive vest to themselves for your cause. This is really serious. Where do you stand, comrades? Ask yourself what you believe in, today where a white, western woman is potentially flogged and imprisoned for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammed in the name of a transparently plagiarised religion.