Gillian Gibbons: Grin And Bear It
GILLIAN Gibbons is in jail on a charge of “insulting Islam”, as the Sun puts it. She is “timid” Gillian. She is the Express’s “teddy bear teacher”, and so too the Mail’s.
But there is – alas – no mention of Sudan’s Teddy Taliban, who have seen fit to incarcerate Gibbons.
What readers do get, of course, is to read the account of Gavin Sherrard-Smith, who today appears in the Mirror, having already told Mail and Express readers of his flogging in Qatar for breaking that country’s alcohol laws.
Mr Sherrard-Smith tells a good anecdote, one in the eye for those who return from Arabic country’s with only a pair of Giorgio Ferrari sunglasses and slides of them haggling for a discount on the “Tommy Copper” hat. But having heard the story three times, the pain is growing dim.
The danger is that by the time Mr Sherrard-Smith reaches the Telegraph, readers will have grown immune to the news, some even writing in to say how had the beaten Britisher gone to St Albions School he would have considered his treatment as no more than a light tap on the knuckles.
Over in the Mail, the tabloid voice of Islamic womanhood, former Apprentice wannabe Saira Khan, says the issue is “deadly serious”. It is “far from funny”.
Indeed. It is almost beyond satire.
The call is for the fundamentalist to show sense. Boris Johnson, writing in the Telegraph, talks of a time when Britain would have sent a gun boat to rescue her. “Civis Britannicus sum,” he cries. “I am a British citizen,” says Gillian ‘Gordon’ Gibbons. “We used to send gunboats to your part of the world. Ruddy fuzzy-wuzzies.”
But one thing has been left out: the identity of the teddy bear.
A soppy Rupert, a mentally negligible Paddington or a rabble rousing, not to forget Buddhist, Winnie The Pooh?
Posted: 29th, November 2007 | In: Boris Watch, Broadsheets, Gillian Gibbons, Politicians, Tabloids, War On Terror Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 4th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
This surely is a wake up call for Britain and the rest of the world.
This religion breeds violence and an idiot race.
It has killed the British values and if your not a muslim you are now a minority.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I dont understand the fuss either. Before anyone accuses me of bieng “islamphobic” (yes a real term, may I ask who the hell do the Sudan goverment think they are? The British people have given aide work, alowed their citizens to come here and work with full British rights and even in this situation tried to teach them with respect. Even the teacher apologized, but why should she apologize. All she did was ask 23 children to name a teddy bear and 20 of them choose that name.
What was she suposed to do tell the kids “Sorry even though 20 of you chose the name we have to use somthing the other 3 choose”. Doing that would of made her Anti muslim as well. Then She has to take the fall for it face the propsect of lashings, shooting or jail. Give me a break here, has common sense gone mad. I was named after a name in the Bible, does that mean if I name anything after me I am bieng a heathen in the eyes of Christians?
Sorry for ranting, but As a nation Britan gives them so much. We even let Muslim extreamists into our country and allow them to preach hate against us , and hate speaches about anyone who isnt Muslim. A bit of a double standard dont you think. No did respect to the moderate and logical Muslims, this is more a rant about Sudan, but then again I am probally a “Islamphobic” heathen who should be whipped , shot or stoned by now
Even though it is common practice (as I read on many sites) for children to follow a religon to name thier toys after their saints / prophets and important figures.
The president of Sudan needs to get his prioitys right, and so do the people who protest. I mean it seems COMPLEATLY logical, that the west would send a primarry school teacher over the age of 30 as a secret weapon against the Muslim world (yes some claimed that) COMPLEATLY LOGICAL.
Finally If the School she worked at would not even try to understand her possition, or try to solve the problem internally. Why the HELL did they even think about employing a non Muslim forigner? I Agree with Nsb and think the ritish goverment should at least impose some santions or remove aid work until the poor woman can get an offical apology from the president of Sudan, and the protestors who demanded her death be shamed and whipped themselfs FOR BEING MORONS.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
What a load of nonsense over the name of a bear! Pull out all the aid workers, stop all aid from this country to theirs and send all Sudanese nationals enjoying the benefits of an over tolerant Great Britain back to live life the way they want it. Never got all this shit from the people of Peru. Love Paddington xxx