At least two Muslims in the world have common sense. Thank goodness.

The absurd and obscene case of Gillian Gibbons (discussed on our show last weekend) has come to an end. The teacher sentenced to prison, and threatened with death, in the Sudan for allowing her 7 year old students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been freed.

Why? Because two Muslim members of Britain's House of Lords flew to Sudan and begged the President, Omar al-Bashir, to pardon her. I wish I could have overheard that conversation. 2 British Muslims begging a Sudanese Muslim to exercise decency and common sense. To have mercy on a woman whose 7 year old MUSLIM students named a teddy bear for heaven's sake.

Fortunately for Ms. Gibbons, the President relented and pardoned her. She has now been deported, never to return to the Sudan. Reportedly, she is in good spirits and harbors no grudge. Her naivete is trumped by her grace.

One wonders what would have happened if a non-Muslim had gone to the Sudan to intervene on her behalf. I assume that person would have been met with cries of intolerance, of exhibiting failure to appreciate Islam and its nuances, and of needing stones about the face and head.

Surely this phenomenon reveals one culture that is seriously disturbed. We can debate all we want about the cultural gaps between east and west, between Christians, atheists, and Muslims, and between Americans and Middle Easterners. The point remains the same: countries controlled by Islam produce warped world views and cruelty at an astonishing rate. Government-sanctioned, imam-supported cruelty and perversion.

All cultures are not alike. They are not all equal. We do ourselves, and teddy bears, a disservice when we pretend that they are.