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[b]JK2006 wrote:[/b]
[quote]Fair enough Pete and it does seem absurd.
My point is that I suspect the media inflated and maybe even caused it.
Apart from that, whilst it is bizarre that other countries and moralities are different from ours, my main gripe is with Great Britain - this is where we live and our morality and law should be understood, obeyed and sensible.
The loopholes exploited in our law cause terrible miscarriages of justice.
Other countries have different standards and there is a terrible tendency for the UK media and public to become nationalistic.

&quot;Filthy foreigners lock up sweet British drug smuggler&quot; is a regular tabloid story.

If someone from a country where the age of consent was 13 (many places) had sex with a 13 year old in the UK, we would be up in arms and 15 days would be considered a very short sentence.

The law is the law however absurd. If that's what the law is in the Sudan for offending religious beliefs (however strange), it seems a fairly short sentence.[/quote]

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Topic History of: Sudan charges UK teacher with insulting religion
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mikemacca	JK2006 wrote: Now I know why this thread is on the music board - the teacher is actually TINY TIM of Tiptoe Thru The Tulips fame. I was trying to work out who she reminded me of... Tiptoe through the Quran with me....
JK2006	Now I know why this thread is on the music board - the teacher is actually TINY TIM of Tiptoe Thru The Tulips fame.
mikemacca	She has said how well she was treated and how everything was fine. I can't imagine for one second that life in a Sudanese women's prison is anything but repulsive. It is bad enough in a British prison when you're innocent....
JK2006	Well you may be being sarcastic Pete but I have a strong suspicion she wasn't actually in jail (removed "for her own safety"?) - I still think there was a great deal more - or less - about this than met the eye. Why? I don't know but one thing I am sure about. It was a very good story.
Pete Clarke	You must be right JK. It never happened. She was never locked up. She's actually been staying at the Khartoum Sheraton. It was all a consipracy, designed purely to sell more newspapers.