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Topic started on 26-11-2007 @ 10:56 AM by LDragonFire

British Teacher Faces 40 Lashes for Naming Class Teddy Bear 'Muhammad'


www.foxnews.com
A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad.

Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was arrested at at Khartoum's Unity High School yesterday, and accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam.

Her colleagues said that they feared for her safety after reports that groups of young men had gathered outside the Khartoum police station where she was taken and were shouting death threats.
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reply posted on 26-11-2007 @ 11:17 AM by rockets red glare
reply to post by LDragonFire



the bear already has a name, "Teddy". naming bears goes back to the days of Teddy Roosevelt. I think he fought with mohammed for the for the naming rights of stuffed bears on the shores of Tripolli and won. But, fourty lashes is a bit excessive 35 should do.


reply posted on 26-11-2007 @ 11:17 AM by MGauntz
reply to post by cloakndagger



I am not Muslim, and I don't like to associate myself with any religion...but that statement was a bit harsh. Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jewish people, they have all done wrongs in the past. One shouldn't demonize a religion due to extremists. I can name things every religion has done terribly. No one comes on top in this debate.


reply posted on 26-11-2007 @ 11:52 AM by centurion1211
Originally posted by MGauntz
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post by cloakndagger



I am not Muslim, and I don't like to associate myself with any religion...but that statement was a bit harsh. Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jewish people, they have all done wrongs in the past. One shouldn't demonize a religion due to extremists. I can name things every religion has done terribly. No one comes on top in this debate.


The problem with being an apologist for these muslims and then trying to compare what they currently do with other religions is that the other religions did all that in the past, sometimes centuries ago. Well, muslims also did their barbaric actions back then, but they're still doing them now - in the 21st century - and that's the difference.

Time to stop apologizing for these muslim's actions and start condemning them for what they are - barbaric.



reply posted on 26-11-2007 @ 11:58 AM by mr-lizard
Get off your high horses everyone and maybe check some other sources before jumping on the bloody bandwagon...

If you check here...

news.bbc.co.uk...

it says she might just get a fine...

and also SHE didn't name the teddy, a seven year old child named the teddy.... so stop your muslim bashing and realise that you might just have misheard things....

I agree with one of the above posters who said, why don't you start bashing us atheists, cos at least we won't be reduced to your religious radicalism, whether that be christian, muslim or whatever...

Sheesh...

If angry men have gathered outside, then don't blame their religion, they are angry, they are obviously mistranslating the situation and probably don't have access to any decent media there, so no doubt they are getting chinese whispers...


reply posted on 26-11-2007 @ 12:04 PM by LDragonFire
reply to post by mr-lizard




Yes we need to keep the facts straight:


"They came up with eight names including Abdullah, Hassan and Muhammad," Mr Boulos said, adding that she then had the children vote on a name.

Twenty out of the 23 children chose Muhammad as their favourite name.

Mr Boulos said each child was then allowed to take the bear home at weekends and told to write a diary about what they did with it.

He said the children's entries were collected in a book with a picture of the bear on the cover and a message which read, "My name is Muhammad."
BBC

Please visit the link provided for the complete story.


If some one acts barbaric, why would anyone label them as civilized. They have a very conform to our beliefs or die mentality, at least their leaders do, and groups of young men outside the jail.


reply posted on 26-11-2007 @ 12:14 PM by Niall197
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She's a BRITISH CITIZEN , presumably like you - and locked up in some manky Sudanese jail for doing next to nothing whatsoever. Put yourself in her shoes, eh ? There she is, out in Sudan and trying to help out by teaching their kids & in the most miserable circumstances and she gets locked up in jail for nothing more than an innocent faux pas.

So quit the hand wringing please .... don't you have any feelings at all for fellow Brits ?
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