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Web Site Sells Teddy Bear Muhammad Cute and uncommonly cuddly, babies and parents alike will warm up to the adorable features of this cloud-soft plush, Muhammad, says the ad. The controversial teddy bear Muhammad, which nearly cost British teacher Gillian Gibbons her life, has been put up for sale on the www.teddybearmuhammad.com web site as the ideal Christmas gift for only US$9.95. An Arizona businessman, Mark Bold, thought up how to use the holiday hysteria and publicity from a British teacher in Sudan who was nearly sentenced to death for allowing her students to name their teddy bear Muhammad. Bold...

Jailed teddy teacher: I feared I would be raped by Sudanese prison officers wanting to teach me a lesson By ANDREW WILKS - More by this author » 9th December 2007 The teacher imprisoned in the Sudan for naming a teddy bear Mohammed has told how she feared being raped by her guards during her incarceration. Gillian Gibbons, who was arrested when a school secretary complained to the authorities two months after the stuffed toy was named by pupils at Unity High School in Khartoum, said her greatest worry was that her guards would "teach the blaspheming white woman a...

I’ve been deeply upset ever since this teddy bear circus erupted. A few days ago, I was out with a bunch of friends trying my best to get my face unglued from my computer screen. As we were walking in laughter, we passed by a shop displaying a set of teddy bears, and for the first time the triggered emotion was a starkly different one. If anything, the whole spectacle further proves something to me as a Sudanese Muslim: our false pride and misplaced sense of honor. Those we watched angrily protesting love to highlight the supposed immorality of the...

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Here we go again. Thousands of Sudanese Muslims took to the street last week to threaten death to a British schoolteacher in Khartoum. Her crime? She inadvertently committed the felony of allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Muhammad." The teacher, Gillian Gibbons, has been pardoned by Sudan's president (after initially being sentenced to 15 days in prison) and sent home to England. Yet that happy ending doesn't erase the reaction in the streets of Khartoum. The tired story behind irrational anger in much of the Muslim world remains the same. Watch out if Westerners somewhere are...

A foreigner's lot is often not a happy one, as even the most earnest do-gooders learn to their mortification (if not execution). The price of an innocent faux pas can be your head. Gillian Gibbons, the English schoolteacher in Sudan who allowed her pupils to call the class teddy bear "Muhammad," is the latest example. She was pardoned by the Sudanese president yesterday and flew home to Liverpool, where she will be safe if she watches her back. You can name a terrorist Muhammad, but not a teddy bear. Not everybody is as devout as the pious radicals of "the...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) -- A British teacher convicted of insulting religion in Sudan by allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has left Khartoum on a flight home, the British Foreign Office said Monday. Gillian Gibbons, freed after Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir granted her a presidential pardon earlier Monday, earlier apologized for any distress her actions may have caused. "I have great respect for the Islamic religion and would not knowingly offend anyone and I am sorry if I caused any distress," Gibbons said, in a statement read out by Sayeeda Warsi, one of two Muslim lawmakers who...

Muslims Reaction brings shame to Islam Dec 03, 2007 04:30 AM `Kill her by firing squad!' protesters chant Dec. 1 I have been following with embarrassment and shame the case of Gillian Gibbons and her class teddy bear. To construe that naming a child's toy Muhammad is an insult to our beloved Prophet is unreasonable. To protest it is ludicrous. To carry it so far as to bring a criminal conviction against Gibbons and to call for her execution is sheer madness. The actions of the Sudanese government and people in this regard have the effect of portraying Muslims as...

Teacher Gillian Gibbons is to be released from prison in Sudan after she was jailed for allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Mrs Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was jailed for 15 days by a court in Sudan. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir pardoned her after a meeting with two British Muslim peers, Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "delighted and relieved" at the news and that "common sense had prevailed". The BBC's Adam Mynott said Mrs Gibbons is expected to be released later on Monday. The jailing of Mrs Gibbons...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan's president on Monday agreed to pardon a British teacher jailed here after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, British politician Lord Nazir Ahmed said. Ahmed and another Muslim representative from Britain's House of Lords, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Monday at his presidential palace to plead for Gillian Gibbons' pardon. "The president has told us he has already signed the papers for her pardon," Ahmed told reporters.

Mideast terrorist leaders are threatening to kill a British teacher imprisoned in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, accusing the teacher of engaging in missionary activity in interviews with WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein. Some terror leaders warned of retaliatory attacks against U.S. and British targets. During today's interviews, Klein petitioned the Islamic terrorists to respond to recent notorious Muslim desecration of other religions' holy sites and asked them whether they considered it hypocritical they are currently protesting the teddy bear report. While the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, has been the target of violent street...

Thousands of people have marched in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to call for UK teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot. Mrs Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was jailed by a court on Thursday after children in her class named a teddy bear Muhammad. She was sentenced to 15 days for insulting religion, and she will then be deported. The Foreign Office was in contact with Sudan's government overnight and is due to repeat demands for her release. The marchers took to the streets after Friday prayers to denounce the leniency of the sentence. 'No tolerance' The protesters gathered in Martyrs Square,...

British Muslims protested outside the Sudanese Embassy over the treatment of jailed teacher Gillian Gibbons. The small but noisy group demanded the immediate release of Mrs Gibbons, who is currently serving a 15-day prison sentence in Sudan after her class of seven-year-olds named a teddy bear Mohammed.

If we didn’t actually see it would we believe it? British middle school teacher Gillian Gibbons sits in fear of her life in a Sudanese jail because she named a teddy bear given to her students, Muhammad. The 21st century has now met the 14th century in real time and although the result sounds like a page out of “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” this is real life in real time this week in America and the rest of the world.

Many in the British press are aghast at the almost complete lack of reaction by the British Foreign Office over the outrageous jailing of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan on the charge of insulting religion and inciting hatred, after her class of 7-year-olds named their teddy bear “Mohammed.”  Gibbons, a teacher with an impeccable record who went to Sudan to help local children, is now being held in a crowded cell with 20 hardened criminals in Khartoum’s notorious mosquito-infested Omdurman prison.  The jail was originally designed for 50 people, but now houses up to 1,400.  Yet the British Foreign...

But the point is that the right not to be offended is now the most sacred right in the world. The right to freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of movement, all are as nothing compared with the universal right to freedom from offense. It's surely only a matter of time before "sensitivity training" is matched by equally rigorous "inoffensiveness training" courses. East is east, and west is west, and in both we take offense at anything: Santas saying "Ho ho ho," teddy bears called Mohammed. And yet the difference is very telling: The now-annual Santa lawsuits in the...

In Khartoum today, a crowd described by some as numbering in the hundreds and by others in the thousands, marched in support of a death sentence for Gillian Gibbons, the British schoolteacher who was convicted of insulting Islam after her class of seven-year-olds named a teddy bear "Muhammad": The protesters, some carrying swords, screamed, “Shame, shame on the U.K.!” and, “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.” The demonstration followed Friday evening services in which imams denounced Ms. Gibbons, but some observers said that the marchers included "government employees ordered to demonstrate." Others said that the protest didn't seem especially...

My local paper (Naples Daily News/ Florida) has nothing on the Teddy Bear story. Does yours?

...There has been appropriate international outrage over the treatment of Gibbons, from virtually everyone except American “feminists.” Multiple Muslim groups in the U.K. have condemned the sentence. Even the popular little boy in Mrs. Gibbons’ class who suggested the name for the bear came to her defense, explaining that he named the bear after himself.

Carrying swords and machetes and waving green Islamic flags, protesters marched through the streets of Khartoum yesterday demanding the execution of British teacher Gillian Gibbons. "No one lives who insults the prophet," read one of the banners outside the British embassy. More than 1,000 Muslim demonstrators in the Sudanese capital called for her to be shot or stabbed for insulting Islam after her pupils called a teddy bear Muhammad. Gibbons, 54, of Liverpool, was sentenced on Thursday night to 15 days in jail followed by deportation in a case that has attracted international condemnation. Last night she was moved from...

Protesters burn the picture of British teacher Gillian Gibbons during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Khartoum, November 30, 2007. Hundreds of Sudanese Muslims, waving green Islamic flags, took to the streets of Khartoum on Friday demanding death for the British teacher convicted of insulting Islam after her class named a teddy bear Mohammad. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdalla/Reuters) Sudanese protesters burn the picture of the British teacher Gillian Gibbons during a demonstration after the Friday prayers in Khartoum, November 30, 2007. Hundreds of Sudanese Muslims, waving green Islamic flags, took to the streets of Khartoum on Friday demanding death for Gibbons...

Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Muhammad." In response to the demonstration, teacher Gillian Gibbons was moved from the women's prison near Khartoum to a secret location for her safety, her lawyer said. In Britain, Gibbons' son, John, told The Associated Press that her mother was "holding up well" and she made an appeal for tolerance. "One of the things my mum said today was that 'I don't want any...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) -- Hundreds of protesters brandishing swords and sticks gathered outside Khartoum's presidential palace Friday to vent their anger against a British teacher jailed for allowing children to name a teddy bear "Mohammed." About 600 Islamic demonstrators piled out of mosques, chanting: "By soul, by blood, I will fight for the Prophet Mohammad." Some of the protestors demanded the teacher's execution, according to the Associated Press. The decision by a Sudanese court to jail Gillian Gibbons late Thursday was widely criticized outside of Sudan as too harsh, with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband saying he was "extremely disappointed"...

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Muhammad." The protesters streamed out of mosques after Friday sermons, as pickup trucks with loudspeakers blared messages against Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation. She avoided the more serious punishment of 40 lashes. "Shame, shame on the U.K.," protesters chanted.

The British teacher who let her pupils call a teddy bear Mohammed escaped a flogging yesterday - but must now endure 15 days in a notorious Sudan jail. Gillian Gibbons will be incarcerated at the squalid Omdurman women's prison in Khartoum, which is massively overcrowded and infested with mosquitoes. The 54-year-old from Liverpool was said to be "stunned" by the sentence imposed for insulting Islam - after which she will be deported from Sudan. Last night, her conviction and punishment were furiously condemned and the Foreign Office was criticised for not fighting her case more forcefully. "The sentence is a...

GOLDEN, B.C. – Rescuers who helped find a 3-year-old girl alive in the crumpled wreckage of an airplane in the rugged British Columbia mountains say they knew she was OK when she cried for her teddy bear. The girl, Kate Williams, miraculously survived the crash on Sunday because she was strapped into a child's car seat, said Mike Plonka, a member of Golden's search-and-rescue team. Her pilot grandfather, Allen D. Williams, 65, and Steven T. Sutton, died in the accident. The plane was found nose down and flipped over in the icy water on the edge of a riverbank. "What...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A math teacher whose name is used in a student film featuring an evil teddy bear that orders other stuffed animals to kill a teacher is suing the four children who made it, alleging it defamed him. Daniel Clevenger's lawsuit, filed May 16 in Henry Superior Court, is the second round of legal action related to the 78-minute film "The Teddy Bear Master." Two months ago, school officials settled a federal lawsuit filed by three of the students to fight their expulsion from Knightstown Intermediate School.

Jonesboro, Ark. (AP) -- A woman who reached into the open window of a car and stole a 3-year-old's teddy bear faces a felony charge for breaking and entering, Jonesboro police said Tuesday. Tonya Marie Taylor, 24, of Bono has a court appearance set for May 31 for allegedly taking the bear on Thursday, Jonesboro Police Detective Vic Brooks said. Brooks said Taylor didn't offer a reason for taking the bear. "That's a real good question," he said. Police were called to the parking lot of a video store, where the child's mother reported the theft. The woman said she...

"Barney the guard dog went berserk at a teddy bear exhibition in England and ripped the stuffing out of Elvis Presley's beloved bear Mabel, exhibitors said on Thursday." Check out link for rest of story... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060803/ts_nm/elvis_dc;_ylt=AuzpyL0jdYtCWkACMspBlt6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

BARNEY, you ain’t nothing but a hound dog. You just ate Elvis’s teddy bear. It was a scene of carnage at a teddy bear display in Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, Somerset, when a dog employed to guard the collection went berserk and inflicted fatal injuries on some of the prized exhibits. Barney is a Doberman Pinscher, a dog first bred by a German tax collector around 1890 to protect him from his clients. Mabel is German, too, having been made in 1909 by the famed toymakers Steiff and is therefore an aristocrat among teddy bears. What made Mabel really...

This was received and forwarded by my great friend, a patriot who is serving missions in Iraq & Afghanistan. His is not the name that appears on the story, but he checked and confirmed there is a marine sergeant by this name. "A little girl was sitting in the road, and she just wouldn't budge." A story from Iraq, as told by a U.S. Marine Sergeant. As you know, I asked for toys for the Iraqi children over here, and they've come over by the box. On each patrol we take through the city, we take as many of these...

"Teddy Troopers’ perform important mission in Iraq" Spc. Derek Del Rosario Aviation Brigade PAO CAMP TAJI, Iraq – July 13, 2005-They can be seen parachuting into various areas around Baghdad. Specially trained individuals recruited during Operation Iraqi Freedom 3, whose primary mission is to bring smiles to the faces of Iraqi children. These airborne “Soldiers” are actually “Teddy Troopers” or “Para-Bears,” stuffed animals with makeshift parachutes jumping into the arms and hearts of children during Operation Teddy Drop. The commander for this unique operation is Chief Warrant Officer 4 Randy M. Kirgiss, pilot for C. Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Aviation...

Those who are long of tooth recall Chevy Chase’s news routine on Saturday Night Live, especially his weekly riff, “Generalissimo Franco is still dead.” That was based on true stories of the removal of assorted organs from the dying General, with doctors’ assurances he was still alive. That also led to Don Henley’s classic, “Dirty Laundry,” with the lines, “Is the head dead yet? Get the widow on the set....” This is ancient news, but it’s relevant to the Democrats. Like the Generalissimo, that Party has had major organs removed, but is allegedly still alive. As a student of US...

I came across this article (dated last December) while looking around the web. It's a very short, but moving story of what can only be described as the love America (and especially those tough, gruff Marines) have for the Iraqi's. And one very brave little Iraqi girl. I thought others would enjoy it also. Grab a Kleenex. Just wanted to write to you and tell you another story about an experience we had over here.   As you know, I asked for toys for the Iraqi children over here and several people (Americans that support us) sent them over by...

"The world is full of victims and habitual whiners these days and I try not to be one of them, though it is hard not to go there." -- renowned moral philosopher Jimmy Buffet, in his latest novel, A Salty Piece of Land At first glance, a teddy bear wouldn't seem an appropriate subject for controversy. But that would be underestimating the power of the Victim Industry. Sometimes I look at the habitual whiners and wonder: When did we all get so offended? When I was a kid, my mind held hostage in the prison of the one-channel universe in...

By DAVID GRAM, Associated Press Writer MONTPELIER, Vt. - After weeks of protests, Vermont Teddy Bear Co. has agreed to stop producing and marketing a "Crazy For You" bear that had angered advocates for the mentally ill, four advocacy groups said Thursday. Company spokeswoman Nicole L'Huillier said the statement issued by the groups was "a little bit inaccurate," but would not immediately elaborate. The $69.95 bear — which comes with a straitjacket and commitment papers — no longer appeared on the company's Web site Thursday. The Valentine's Day (news - web sites) bear was criticized as insensitive by mental health...

THE SENSITIVITY police in Vermont have nothing better to do this winter than examine teddy bears for possible offenses against the emotionally thin-skinned. And so the Vermont Human Rights Commission has officially urged the Vermont Teddy Bear company to stop selling its “Crazy for You” bear. The reason? The bear, which comes wrapped in a straight jacket with a little heart on it, might offend the mentally ill. In a letter to the company, Human Rights Commission executive director Robert Appel wrote, “Perhaps most disturbing to me is the apparent lack of understanding by your company of the real hurt...

The complaint is the first Vermont Teddy Bear has received about the bear that it began selling days ago. Company officials said they take the complaint seriously and plan to discuss the issue.

JUNE 22--The FBI has subpoenaed records related to the online sales of a teddy bear carrying the message "Bush Kills Arabs Dead," apparently as part of a probe into who delivered one of the plush toys to the Michigan home of a federal magistrate, The Smoking Gun has learned. But, TSG has discovered, the Detroit U.S. Attorney's grand jury investigation will find that the teddy bear, pictured at right, wasn't some sort of a terror threat, but rather a gag gift purchased by a friend of Mona Majzoub, the federal magistrate. Last July, a court panel selected Majzoub, a 55-year-old...

<p>The folks at the Hermione Museum in Tallulah, ever mindful that Teddy Roosevelt helped make their town part of his presidential lore with a 1907 bear hunt, will open an exhibit related to the nation's 26th president May 1.</p> <p>To celebrate the establishment of the Roosevelt Room at the Hermione, the museum on April 30 will host "An Evening with Tweed," a dinner with remarks from the president's great-grandson, Tweed Roosevelt of Boston, who frequently speaks about his famous ancestor.</p>

It all started when a hunting party that included Teddy Roosevelt killed a sow bear, only to discover afterward that she had a cub. When one of the hunters raised his rifle to dispatch the orphan in order to spare the poor creature a slower death by starvation, exposure or predation, T.R. intervened, commuted the sentence, and the cub was led off, presumably to a zoo. This compassionate gesture is better known today than any of President Roosevelt's executive decisions, treaties or other accomplishments while in offlce — thanks to a toymaker. It seems the sparing of the bear cub...

Al-Qaeda preparing 'Teddy Bear Bomb' - report October 06 2003 at 10:48AM Madrid - Spanish police have informed airport security and explosives experts that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network is attempting to make a new kind of bomb, the daily El Mundo reported Monday. The bomb would consist of nitrocellulose - also known as guncotton -hidden inside padded jackets, pillows or toys such as teddy bears, difficult to detect in airport security checks, according to the daily. El Mundo quoted reports sent by the United State Transportation Security Administration and the FBI to the Spanish Interior Ministry in August....

The owner of a toy museum is calling on the public to boycott an art exhibition that features the charred and mutilated bodies of teddy bears. Deady Bears, which forms part of a wider work entitled A Walk on the Darkside at the Artlounge gallery in Lytham St Anne's, Lancs, features cuddly toys that have been variously dismembered, pierced with 6in nails and daubed with red paint intended to resemble blood. Irena Thompson, who runs the nearby Toy and Teddy Bear Museum, is outraged. "This exhibition is simply dreadful, and I do not see what the artist is trying to...