The recent manufactured issue generated by the country of Sudan illustrates a case where Sudan like many fundamentalist countries (I'm not just referring to Islam here but all religions holding fundamentalists strictures) are drawing a line in the sand and forcing anyone that partners with these countries to accept their doctrine, dogma and religious principles or reject them completely and become a protester of that religion.
The British teacher that went to Sudan to help teach Sudanese children in a private school and was then arrested is a case in point. Teachers, doctors and others that go to countries like Sudan must either completely accept the governments doctrine or recognize that almost anything and everything that they might do might be a form of protest or rejection of that government.
In other words, when they go there, they must choose sides and accept the consequences of their choice. It should be good enough for these people to attempt to help, but of course when politics are localized everything will be politicized. Sudan has other motives for arresting this teacher. They are attempting to distract attention from the terrible abuses, crimes, rapes and genocide taking place in Sudan's Darfur region.
But that doesn't matter for the British teacher in custody, facing a trial and possibly jail time and lashings for her attempts to help teach children and connect with them in their own culture. Sudan would retract further from the world so that they can continue their abuses, but if they can not do that they will drag every person that attempts to help their people down with them in the mean time.
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