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Mo Bear

OK, here we go. Brit teacher faces 40 lashes for naming Teddy Bear “Mohammed.” Sky News:   

A British teacher is facing 40 lashes in a Sudanese jail if convicted of insulting Islam’s prophet by letting children name a teddy bear Mohammed.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was arrested on suspicion of blasphemy on Sunday.

Ms Gibbons allowed her class of seven-year-olds at the Unity High School in Khartoum to name a teddy bear Mohammed as part of a lesson about animals’ habitats.

Mohammed is sacred to Islamic philosophy and the penalty for blasphemy is 40 lashes, a large fine or a jail term. The British Embassy in Khartoum confirmed the arrest.

Sounds innocent enough. Sort of like naming the bear “Teddy,” though more like naming it “Mike,” given how common the name is. The argument could be made she failed a simple intelligence test, however: When in Sudan or any other part of greater Derkaderkastan, do not, under any circumstances, label any object “Mohammed.” Particularly anything that looks like a bomb, an animal, etc.  Also, do not name your dog this. You will be imprisoned and lashed, or worse. It is a simple fact of life if you choose to live among backward savages.  

Anyway, as a Northern barbarian, I object to the lower-casing of “Teddy” in this article, as the stuffed toys are so named as a gesture of respect for the great Yankee imperialist infidel Theodore Roosevelt, and treated by our children as objects of quasi-religious veneration and comfort.  

Topics: Islam, moronocy

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:04 pm on Monday, November 26, 2007

4 Responses to “Mo Bear”

1. Dave Surls Says:
   November 26th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

   “It is a simple fact of life if you choose to live among backward savages.”

   Depends on what sort of backward savages. It wouldn’t be a big deal out here in California.

2. Michael Lonie Says:
   November 26th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

   “I want Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead,” said TR when confronted by an earlier practitioner of the savagery associated with the ROP. He had the right idea.

   In response to this example of Sudanese legal due process I suggest the Brits pick a reasonably valuable (to the Sudanese rulers) site in the Sudan and blow it to hell with a small nuke. Then they can tell everybody that unless Muslim savages stop messing with British subjects there will be more where that came from.

3. RebeccaH Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

   Unfortunately, Michael, the British government will probably chide Ms. Gibbons for being culturally insensitive, and then avert their eyes from the spectacle of a middle-aged British schoolteacher being beaten for the crime of allowing Muslim children to name a teddy… sorry, Teddy… bear “Muhammed”.

4. Vanguard of the Commentariat Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

   Hell Dave, in California 40 lashes would be considered “foreplay”…

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