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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I name something after Mohammed every time I have a really good bowel movement.
You have got to be freaking kidding me.
These islamic-fascists need to exterminated. (Sorry for the extreme retort but I am sick to death of these people.)
I have a sneaky feeling if a little Sudanese girl had named her teddy the same, there wouldn’t have been a problem.
Ahh, breakfast - nothing starts the day off better than a cold glass of O.J. and a plate of Moham-n-eggs.
She allowed the class to vote on the name. I assume their a girls in this class. Maybe this is more of a penalty for democracy.
Serves the silly cow right for going to Sudan in the first place maybe now she will see the error of her ways and that Islam is evil.
You do know that one sect of this murderous cult of Islam
believe their next prophet will be born by man.
They examine their feces by hand to check for any lumps.
I have seen them over there when I was in the middle east back in 99'. I was told that they wear those pants incase the newborn prophet comes thru one of them.
I guess so he doesn't fall on his head, much like the rest of them must have!
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Mr. Mohanky!
“silly cow” is right.
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