Its high time they have their own secular revolution and confine their religious idiots to the margins were they belong. Until this happens I say we just ignore them. Give them the silent treatment and only talk to them by asking other countries to please tell them stuff.

Hmmm.

Not good.

Oh and if you're expecting something from Gordon Brown or anyone else in Parliament- they're about as forceful as Senator Craig's toe tapping. Skiddish to say the least.

BTW Mr. Poe- why is it such a horrible idea? Please elaborate for us bored slog readers.

(BTW, I've been watching some clips of you on YouTube and despite what you keep saying, you are one sexy man.)

Yeah, the readers here and Americans in general don't give 2 shits about the genocide in Darfur. It's been going on for 4 years and we don't care, it's true, but a white woman gets a 15 day sentence and we've got major headlines across the country and people naming their butt plugs in protest. What a protest! Could you possibly have made yourself look more impotent?

In any case, I agree with the other posters, if anyone is going to go to war with Sudan it should be over genocide.

Sudan is one of the very worst places in the world. I appreciate that this is a fucked up situation, but at least she hasn't been raped and mutilated, which is a lot more than many, many women in Sudan can say.

It's sort of surprising to me that anyone could go over to Sudan and not expect this sort of thing. It's so freaking dangerous there that I would think anyone going would have to be really up on stuff to not do. I am not blaming the victim, because I don't agree with anything that is happening to her, but it does surprise me that she didn't know any better.

You don't tug on Superman's Cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don't go to motherfucking Sudan. (or Liberia, or Chechneya, or anywhere there is a civil war, genocide, or kidnapping for profit going on)

Well if you don't like Dan's protest, then what do YOU propose he name his butt-plug?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7121025.stm

For an end times story line, that one has to be the funniest.

but there's also something to be said about protecting those who can be assisted, and those who do go over there to help. not just because she's "like us", or a white woman, but because she's trying to make a difference, and because some control over her situation can be had.

"According to some agencies, some of the protesters chanted: "Shame, shame on the UK", "No tolerance - execution" and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7121025.stm

why no Mohammy? cuz they no they will be killed, of course!

it's a respect thing. Muslims revere (not worship, revere) Muhammad, so I guess it would be demeaning to Muhammad's memory to name a lowly animal after him. to name another person after him would be fine, since Muhammad was also just a regular person, but an animal? that doesn't fly.
but it also doesn't deserve prison time or lashes.

I live in the South (Mississippi), and it's really not that backwards. No one would burn crosses on the lawn of a teacher who named a teddy bear Jesus. She would probably get some complaints about bringing religion into schools, though.

From what I heard, the Teddy Bear got named because her students chose the name.

Jocelyn (#48),
it may be accepting like that in some areas, but having lived in the Midwest and the South, I know what some other areas are (unfortunately) like...

All this shit about it being a white woman is why we're excited. Goddamn right!!! Do we give a shit about any of their females facing this kind of stuff? Hell no... they're just as guilty and actually support and nuture this primitive culture. I could care less if they kill and torture each other, good fucking riddance. But I do care when a western, christian, white woman gets caught in their caveman games - I'd say a few dozen sea-launched cruise missiles into downtown Khartoum would be great entertainment and solve the problem. USA baby.

On one level I understand #19's trouble with the West's expressing outrage against a European being the target of feudalism while not enough is being done to end the atrocities in Darfur.

However, concern with the Gibbons case does not preclude concern with Darfur. Concern with atrocities perpetrated in other cultures does not preclude concern with those in our own. We shouldn't respond with more tribalism but we should respond.

This is barbarism. So is the Iraq War. Neither cancels out the other.

Then there is "insulting islam" in this case. Some of the thinnest skinned people in the world are muslims -- awful damn easy to insult, and ready to kill you for it.

And to everybody who raised genocide in the comments above: If you got arrested on a bullshit charge, would you hope for me to say "your injustice doesn't matter -- there is a genocide in Sudan!"

Muhammed [Peace be Upon Him] my friend, it's time to tell the world, we both know you raped Khadijah, your childbride. And you the pedophile, who raped so many women who cried, deserve a pork stuffed up your softer side.

@54 No, I wouldn't expect you to say that, neither would I expect my rather minor plight to become international headlines for several days.

The whole point is that this incident barely makes the needle twitch on my injustice-o-meter, but Dan relishes tit-for-tat and takes any excuse to bash religion and the press loves to fan the flames of hatred, and it's all hysterically disproportionate. You're not helping your causes. You just look foolish.

Someone, once, told me that the rules of war propaganda never changed since the days of the opium wars. I’m starting to think that he wasn’t wrong. In fact he might not be wrong at all.