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British Teacher Faces 40 Lashes in Sudan for Naming a Teddy Bear Mohamed
Daily Mail ^ | November 26, 2007

Posted on 11/26/2007 7:38:50 AM PST by Cecily

A British teacher is facing 40 lashes from police in Sudan where she has been accused of insulting Islam after naming a Teddy bear Mohamed.

Gillian Gibbons, 54, was being questioned at a police station in the capital Khartoum.

She had been working at one of the city's exclusive British schools for the past three months since giving up her job in Liverpool.

Police arrived at the old-fashioned brick and stone buildings of the Unity High School on Sunday to arrest Miss Gibbons after a complaint from parents that she had named the bear after Islam's most holy prophet Mohamed.

An angry mob shouted death threats as she was taken away.

The school remained closed yesterday and children were sent home for fear of reprisals from Islamic extremists.

Robert Boulos, the school's director, said the teacher had made an innocent mistake.

"We have lost one of our best teachers. She was maybe a little naive but she really had no idea what she was doing."

The teddy bear had been brought to school by one of Miss Gibbon's six and seven-year-old pupils as part of a project.

They were asked to take the bear home each weekend and keep a diary of his activities.

The class voted on a name and settled on Mohamed - also the name of one of the most popular pupils.

"No parents or teachers complained because they knew she had no bad intentions," said Mr Boulos.

"She has done nothing wrong but now we are very concerned that there's a risk to the school and the students from the men in the street.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; islamicviolence; muslims; muslimviolence
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This is sickening, and the Brits should pull out all the stop to keep this lashing from happening.
1 posted on 11/26/2007 7:38:51 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Cecily

Good thing they don’t know what I named a dookie the other day...


2 posted on 11/26/2007 7:40:19 AM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: Cecily

And how many of her “Piece of trash” islamic neighbors are named mohamed.


3 posted on 11/26/2007 7:43:01 AM PST by joshhiggins
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To: joshhiggins

my friends Dog and Pig are name the same, you should see people’s faces!!!!


4 posted on 11/26/2007 7:44:37 AM PST by proudusvet
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To: Cecily

Great!

Now I know what to name one of my Sea Monkeys!


5 posted on 11/26/2007 7:45:49 AM PST by Scarchin (+)
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To: Cecily

the EU better should hurry to get our troops on the ground in sudan. i´m shure if we had boots on the ground this would not happening.


6 posted on 11/26/2007 7:48:04 AM PST by austrian
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To: Cecily
We've all heard that men name their ...

Hmmm... Mohamed, Mohamad, Mohammad, which to choose.

7 posted on 11/26/2007 7:48:21 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: Cecily

I think I’m going to have to reserve the word “mohamed” for the times when no other swear word will do.


8 posted on 11/26/2007 7:51:00 AM PST by Nephi ( $100m ante is a symptom of the old media... the Ron Paul Revolution is the new media's choice.)
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To: proudusvet

“..my friends Dog and Pig are name the same, you should see people’s faces!!!!”

You do not seem very kind to dogs and pigs.


9 posted on 11/26/2007 7:54:51 AM PST by 353FMG (Hillary - Al Qaeda's Dream)
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To: Cecily

I think I am going to name my toilet Mohamed!


10 posted on 11/26/2007 7:57:19 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: Cecily

This story speaks volume about Islamic fundamentalists. They are looking for any reason to perpetrate violence and cruelty against those that pose no threat nor mean no harm.


11 posted on 11/26/2007 7:59:55 AM PST by Biblebelter
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They need to be kept away from the civilized half of the world we live in.


12 posted on 11/26/2007 8:01:50 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Cecily

I may name my toilet Mohammed.


13 posted on 11/26/2007 8:03:28 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Cecily

Virgin Radio just mentioned this in their top of the hour newsbreak.


14 posted on 11/26/2007 8:03:52 AM PST by fishtank (Fenced BORDERS, English LANGUAGE, Patriotic CULTURE: A good plan.)
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To: Cecily

To hell with these silly bastards.

I hope they fester in the rotten stench of pigs blood until they come to their senses.

Idiots.


15 posted on 11/26/2007 8:08:43 AM PST by GulfBreeze (Support America? Then support Duncan Hunter.)
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To: Cecily

It’s really no solution at all to “pull out all stops to keep the lashing from happening”. We need to DIVORCE OURSELVES ENTIRELY FROM THESE CULTURES, and then there would be no need for Westerners to be there in the capacity of serving other Westerners, as she was in a “British school”.


16 posted on 11/26/2007 8:09:13 AM PST by supremedoctrine ('Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length' --Robert Frost)
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To: Cecily

Religion of Peace at it again.


17 posted on 11/26/2007 8:09:13 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: Cecily

Well do you think they will get mad over my pet pig???


18 posted on 11/26/2007 8:13:39 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Cecily
The class voted on a name and settled on Mohamed - also the name of one of the most popular pupils.

Shouldn't the town be shouting death threats at their own children?

(Of course this is Islam...so maybe they are.)

19 posted on 11/26/2007 8:21:16 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Cecily

I have a pig called "allah the merciful".Here's an example of his mercy.


20 posted on 11/26/2007 8:28:42 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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