Posted on 11/27/2007 3:02:28 PM PST by 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.
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All kidding aside, I have a hard time believing that Muslims would truly consider a teddy bear “unclean.” (Yes, the bear is a carnivore but nobody thinks of their teddy bear as one who would eat them.)
There are many men named “Mohammed” so surely they can’t be thinking of hubris either.
Again, I'm not defending Islam, but remember that there was about as much time from Moses to Jesus as Islam has been around.
I think views on Genesis 22 come into play here. Child sacrifice was common among the Semetic people, and perhaps the story of the near sacrifice of Isaac was meant to convey that the God of the Jews didn't condone the practice--by halting the sacrifice and providing the ram, it graphically illustrated the change to animals only. Or perhaps you have the view that God was testing Abraham by seeing if he'd follow an abhorrent command.
I bring this up because I think it all plays into the idea of whether one should change beliefs and actions with the times ("...have moved on..." "...archaic practices..." etc.) or would follow what God says, regardless of the times. Was God's command barbaric? Were those who followed it "barbaric"? If God ordered it today, would following it be "barbaric"...or "holy"?
“Fahd is a Saudi. But - he is rich and powerful.”
And he also died over 2 years ago.
Work in a nation of savages, expect to get savaged.
I hope I see the day when these Islamic thugs get their faces pounded so deep in the dirt they’ll regret ever hearing the name Mo Ham Mud.
God bless you for your Christian attitude.
Taunting may not work for them, but it sure works for me..
King Fahd is pushing daisies, or cacti, actually.. Been dead at least a year or two...
Oh she should have put boxing gloves and shorts on it and claimed she meant The Greatest (Muhammmad Ali).....
These muslims are delusional. Yet now, I see so many muslims getting TV time...
The only thing innocent in this story is the teddy bear.The techer has to be a liberal so that makes her guilty and I could care less what happens to her.
Why, and why?
By giving that name ( Mohammed) to a teddy bear something that is known for being a good thing, it lessens the vile thing that Islam is about. Islam is a death cult and there is no way a person should make it anything else.
You don't know her and neither do I but part of me says she was a fool of the highest proportions to go over their and take a job while the other half of me is having my blood boiled and my pulse racing because of this evil Islamic punishment over something so pathetic.
She may well probably be a liberal but here in the UK she has the right to stand up and spout her pathetic liberal muck without being caned for it, mocked and jeered at, yes by all means and also taking the consequences of her own actions.
I'm certainly not going to get into a religious discussion here with anyone under any circumstances but suffice to say if I can get upset about a liberal being subjected to something as barbaric as this then I must be a man of mercy and good will, good day to you!
Hmm. I have known able teachers with strong vocations (yes, they do have them)who choose to work abroad in hostile environments. None of them are liberals, and all have my great respect. I see nothing in the details of this story to suggest this unfortunate lady isn’t one such as these. Her only failing was a certain naivete in not anticipating at least some problems from the ‘teddy naming’ project. There’s nothing at all here to suggest she’s a liberal, still less that someone who’s obviously a good person ‘deserves’ such appalling treatment.
Islam is a man-made cult, dressed in the robes of “religion”.
The God of the Torah is the God of the New Testament - although sometimes it appears striking to me that the God of such mercy is also the God of judgment and holiness.
But God is holy. He can be nothing less.
Yes - the Old Testament does seem harsh in many ways. You know how many Laws of the Torah there are? 613
That's a lot of laws. Furhtermore, the Pharisees atomized God's law even further. It was so hard to live up to that Christ chastised them:
The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven." (Matthew 23:2-9
But, Christ said he didn't come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it.
That is the essence of God's love. A chasm separates us from a holy God. We can't get there. Ever. But, in His mercy He provided a way.
Sometimes, I wonder if I am the only one who falls. Am I the only one "messed up?"
No. We all fall. But Christ picks me up again. He forgave me. And through Him - the Law is fulfilled and God accepts me.
We don't live under the law of the Torah anymore. We live in the age of Grace.
But someday, perhaps soon - that door is going to close.
Don't be left outside.
Take care - and thanks.
In this case, it’s Sudan who arrested a UK teacher for insulting Islam. It won’t be too long before teachers IN THE UK will be subject to arrest on the same charge.
I would say it is more an insult to teddy bears.LOL!
lol... because we all know how often those crazy Jews stone people, even non Jews, for collecting firewood on the Sabbath. </sarcasm
Honestly, you don’t see a difference? You think your analogy holds any water what so ever? If so, you are either anti Semitic, or Islamic, which is pretty much the same thing.
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