Different worlds - Confronting intolerance

IT IS difficult to understand, let alone tolerate, the mind set that would condemn a person to death because they named a teddy bear “Mohammed”.

Yet, that was the demand yesterday of thousands of Sudanese who took to Khartoum’s Martyrs’ Square calling for the execution of school teacher Gillian Gibbons.

“No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad,” were the catch cries of the day, the fanatics all the while burning pictures of Ms Gibbons, 54. Clerics at Khartoum’s main Martyrs Mosque denounced her, saying she intentionally insulted Islam.