In truth, plenty of Muslims do not agree with the horrid treatment of this teacher. The author of this story should have done a little checking. It took me two seconds to pull these up.
The Muslim Canadian Congress is organizing a teddy bear mail-in to protest Sudan’s imprisonment of Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=136705
Multiple Muslim groups in the U.K. have condemned the sentence. Even the popular little boy in Mrs. Gibbons’ class who suggested the name for the bear came to her defense, explaining that he named the bear after himself.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314401,00.html
A teddy bear mail-in? This should not be necessary. The muslim government where this woman is held should be protecting her - should never have given her a sentence. Why did the muslim government sentence her at all?
Also, from the looks of it, contrary to what the IBD editors wrote (or maybe they wrote it before CAIR’s response), CAIR’s website does, in fact, feature an article condemning the Sudanese court’s treatment of Ms. Gibbons, and calling for her release.
http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=777&&ArticleID=23869&&name=n&&currPage=1
Whether they really ‘mean’ it is, of course, a wholly separate question....