The recent events concerning Gillian Gibbons’ arrest and imprisonment in Sudan for allowing a teddy bear to be called Muhammad have troubled me deeply. Concerned I contacted Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs for solace.
Dear Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs,
Love the show!
I am writing to you as a man on the edge, at the end of his tether. Everything I have ever believed in or held true has been cast asunder in the past few weeks because of what has happened to Gillian Gibbons after she allowed children in a Sudanese primary school call a teddy bear Muhammad. You may be wondering why I am contacting Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs about this, but let’s be honest, who else is there contact Steve if not you?
My main problem with what has happened is that the fact is Gillain Gibbons DID commit a blasphemy, and by letting her out of prison after only 8 days do you really think she has learnt her lesson? I bet you any wager you care to make thatGibbons will be back to her deity mocking ways before the month is out, egging crucifixes or scrawling crude graffiti on statues of Buddha or whatever it is that sick people like this do to get their kicks.
And do we really need another blasphemer on the streets in the run up to Christmas?!? I think not. As far as I’m concerned if you do the crime you do the time! Don’t you agree Steve?
It sickened me to my 84 year old guts to see those representatives from the House of Lords fly out (on the tax payers expense no doubt) to negotiate her early release. Is this another Westernism we are trying to export out to the Middle East, short comfortable prison stays for criminals? I think it’s bad enough that OUR prisons are nothing more than glorified holiday resorts without the government trying to turn Sudanese prisons likewise!
And another thing, where do Christians get off saying to comedians “oh you’d make fun of Jesus but you would mock Islam that quick!” Well correct me if I’m wrong, but is Jesus not a prophet in the Muslim tradition too? If you are going to mock any messenger from God is it not best to mock Jesus, that way you are not singling out any specific group? Surely those who try to stop people from mocking Jesus are just trying to drive a wedge between the Christian and Muslim communities?
Like you Steve I am both a Muslim and a Christian and therefore I have much to lose from those who want to create disharmony between my two chosen religions. I beg you in your capacity as a Radio 2 DJ to plead for more anti Jesus jokes and for Gillian to be sent back to prison, if you don’t I fear for my sanity.
Will you do this for me? And will you also play ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ by Elton John and Kiki Dee?
Regards,
Spike
