And What Did the Brits Have to Give Up? December 3, 2007
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The President of Sudan has commuted the sentence of the British “Teddy Bear” teacher, Gillian Gibbons, and will very soon be deported.
If you think that he did this out of the goodness of his heart, or purely for altruistic or civil libertarian reasons, you’re delusional, especially when his country is full of fanatics who wanted her executed. He wouldn’t risk the legitimacy of his regime to free her if the Brits didn’t give him something in return. Also, it’s not like he himself is a secular moderate.
The incident also pointed up the strained relations between Britain and Sudan, where al-Bashir’s rules with Islamic Sharia law and with anti-West rhetoric.
Al-Bashir has resisted Western peacekeeping efforts in conflict-torn Darfur. Last month, he objected to the unclusion of Swedish members in a U.N. peacekeeping force scheduled to be deployed next month in Darfur on the grounds Scandinavian newspapers last year published cartoons that were plasphemous of Mohammed.
Brown has led the way among Western leaders this year in pressing peace efforts in Darfur, including urging sanctions against the Sudanese government if it failed to cooperate.
There’s the price. Look for the British and European foreign relations establishment to stop talking about Darfur. Not that it’s such a bad thing that the white world gets its collective nose out of a black-on-black imbrogliana. After all, if the Balkans aren’t worth the bones of one single Pomeranian musketeer, then black Muslim Africa isn’t worth a paper scratch on the same.
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