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.
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Good thing they don’t know what I named a dookie the other day...
And how many of her “Piece of trash” islamic neighbors are named mohamed.
my friends Dog and Pig are name the same, you should see people’s faces!!!!
Great!
Now I know what to name one of my Sea Monkeys!
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.
Hmmm... Mohamed, Mohamad, Mohammad, which to choose.
I think I’m going to have to reserve the word “mohamed” for the times when no other swear word will do.
“..my friends Dog and Pig are name the same, you should see peoples faces!!!!”
You do not seem very kind to dogs and pigs.
I think I am going to name my toilet Mohamed!
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.
They need to be kept away from the civilized half of the world we live in.
I may name my toilet Mohammed.
Virgin Radio just mentioned this in their top of the hour newsbreak.
To hell with these silly bastards.
I hope they fester in the rotten stench of pigs blood until they come to their senses.
Idiots.
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”.
Religion of Peace at it again.
Well do you think they will get mad over my pet pig???
Shouldn't the town be shouting death threats at their own children?
(Of course this is Islam...so maybe they are.)
I have a pig called "allah the merciful".Here's an example of his mercy.
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