Yes, it's being reported that their are mass protests in Khartoum about the "leniency" of the sentence. Evidently something harsher would be preferred. It's not surprising that given the opportunity that those who would like to embarrass the British and by extension other Western countries are making use of this incident.

Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and the new British delegation of Moslem members of Parliment will be able to secure a release of the teacher in question, and spirit her away before a mob succeeds in exercising corporal punishment.

I wish them well.

I am tempted to wish that a goodly portion of the posters on this thread were in Khartoum as well. But that would be wrong!

Charley Noble