Reports: Sudan arrests UK teacher for teddy bear blasphemy ("Insulted Islam")

CNN ^ | 27 Nov 07 | none listed

[SkyPilot]

(CNN) -- Sudan has arrested a British teacher for insulting faith and religion, the British Foreign Office said Monday.

Numerous media reports say Gibbons was arrested after allowing her class of 7-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."

That could be seen as an insult to the Prophet Mohammed, the reports said.

[SkyPilot]

The worst part about hearing this story was how CNN and AP Radio news reported it.

They made it sound as if the teacher really had committed a "crime" and talked about it in tones as if she had raped and murdered somebody.

They should have mocked Islam with acid sarcasm - but we all know how liberals "think."

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Another liberal gets mugged.

[MBB1984]

I must have sports on the brain. When I saw “UK”, I instantly thought the University of Kentucky.

[SF Republican]

Again? she is getting a long rap sheet from this one incident.

[pgyanke]

What a game, eh?

[Marie2]

Prayers for this poor lady, that she will escape this senseless beating.

I understand King Fahd can commute the sentence, so prayers for him, too.

[ronnie raygun]

They are right, this teddy bear is to cute.

[ronnie raygun]

ANI-MALS! ANI-MALS! ANI-MALS! and I am not referring to the teddy bear!!!

[G8 Diplomat]

I understand King Fahd can commute the sentence

Isn't he a Saudi? She was arrested by Sudan.

[G8 Diplomat]

...or is the king of Sudan named Fahd? There’s a Saudi royal with the same name, hard to keep track of them all...

[Son House]

Yep, she should have wiped the kids.

[SF Republican]

Yep, she should have wiped the kids
ewwwwwwww

[Soothesayer]

How deeeer they call Mohawwwmed a cute teddy bear! The prophet ain’t no teddy, he’s a strong big-bearded man who keeels real good!

[SkyPilot]

Fahd is a Saudi. But - he is rich and powerful.

Here she is again. She obviously loves and tries to help these people.

For her efforts and kindness to children, she is persecuted, threatened with 40 lashes, and arrested.

If anyone doubts Islam is evil, they lack discernment.

[G8 Diplomat]

What a barbaric “religion.”

Cute cheetah BTW. Looks like my tabby cat.

[Harrius Magnus]

I don’t want them here, and she shouldn’t be there. They are freaking savages, and I suspect she was awfully naive. That is the truth; I don’t begrudge or blame her, if she accepts that this indeed was a possibility when she took a job in The Land of Mo. If she doesn’t, she’s going to learn the hard way what many of us already know: Islam is not compatible with a flourishing Western Civilization. It should be contained and isolated.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That could be seen as an insult to the Prophet Mohammed, the reports said.

I would say it is more an insult to teddy bears.

We have done nothing but bring love to the world unlike Mo and Co.

[Gondring]

What a barbaric “religion.”

Not that I'm supporting Islam, but I'm curious if you would say the same about a religion that would stone a man for collecting sticks (firewood) on the Sabbath.

[scrabblehack]

Maybe one of those teddy bear companies could come out with a whole new set (for example, Vermont Teddy Bears has Firefighter Bear, Nurse Bear, Santa Bear, etc.)...one could have Muslim Bear, Christian Bear, Hindu Bear, etc.

[SkyPilot]

Not that I'm supporting Islam, but I'm curious if you would say the same about a religion that would stone a man for collecting sticks (firewood) on the Sabbath.

Can you tell us precisely what the Torah Law says vis a vis the Sabbath? How does the Torah (Old Testament) compare to the Koran?