Fortunately it sounds like that teacher was allowed to leave Sudan.
I just don't understand that kind of religious extremism, no matter what the faith. It all seems so antithetical to what one really wants from a relationship with the divine. But that's what can happen when religious authority is handed over to another human.
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
- Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, mid-1800s
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