Who Is Insulted?

I'm so saddened by the decision of the Sudanese court to sentence Gillian Gibbons to 15 days in jail and deportation for allowing her 7 year old students to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Certainly, we know the punishment could have been much worse.

I know several Muslims, and they are some of the best people I know. The reports we see in the news about these drastic measures taken in the name of Islam, are such a skewed perspective on the average practicing Muslim, but I am afraid that most Americans may not realize that. Just as in the US, we have Christians who truly walk in the footsteps of Jesus and radicals who use his name to justify their violent actions, any group can have radicals that misrepresent the rest. Unfortunately, in both of these religions, it seems that the radicals have governmental power.