{"id":3294,"date":"2007-12-01T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/canadian_muslims_enter_sudanese_teddy_debate\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T19:53:00","slug":"canadian_muslims_enter_sudanese_teddy_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Muslims enter Sudanese Teddy debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Canadian Congress is organizing a teddy bear mail-in to protest Sudan&#8217;s imprisonment of Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old woman was jailed on Thursday for 15 days for allowing her young students to name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of a class project.<\/p>\n<p>Tarek Fatah, MCC&#8217;s founder, said he is asking the group&#8217;s 300 members to send &#8220;tiny teddy bears&#8221; (including the one pictured) to Faiza Hassan<\/p>\n<p>Taha, Sudan&#8217;s ambassador in Ottawa, as a protest.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, protests at the leniency of Ms. Gibbons&#8217; sentence brought hostile crowds out on the streets of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, with angry men brandishing ceremonial swords and calling for her execution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays_paper\/story.html?id=136705\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Canadian Congress is organizing a teddy bear mail-in to protest Sudan&#8217;s imprisonment of Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher. The 54-year-old woman was jailed on Thursday for 15 days for allowing her young students to name a teddy bear<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3294\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,202,207,426,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-canada","category-islam","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}