Just finished it ....Then read your post..Great minds think alike...
Posted on 11/29/2007 2:46:45 PM PST by Baladas
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 29 — The British teacher in Sudan who let her 7-year-old pupils name a class teddy bear Muhammad was found guilty on Thursday of insulting Islam and sentenced to 15 days in jail and deportation.
Under Sudanese law, the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, could have spent months in jail and been lashed 40 times.
“She got a very light punishment,” said Rabie A. Atti, a government spokesman. “Actually, it’s not much of a punishment at all. It should be considered a warning that such acts should not be repeated.”
Mr. Daair said her sentence will include time served, which means she will spend 10 more days behind bars before being sent back to Britain.
The case started in September when Ms. Gibbons, who taught at one of Sudan’s most exclusive private schools, began a project on animals and asked her class to come up with a name for a teddy bear. The class voted resoundingly for Muhammad, one of the most common names in the Muslim world and the name of Islam’s holy prophet.
As part of the exercise, Ms. Gibbons told her students to take the bear home, photograph it and write a diary about it. The entries were collected in a book called “My name is Muhammad.” Most of her students were Muslim children from wealthy Sudanese families. The government said that when some parents saw the book, they complained to the authorities. In Islam, insulting the Prophet Muhammad is a grave offense, and in northern Sudan, where Khartoum lies, it is a crime.
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Some people do not get it. Look for her to go to another muslim hell hole to teach the underprivileged.
Bush wants to spend our money to help these people?
-what Muslim country would give her a visa to enter their country NOW? -she will be lucky to be safe back in England.
Only a hateful religious cult does things like this.
I am tired of pandering to Islam, and those panderers to it.
Can you imagine the furor if a Christian group tried to punish someone for naming something “Jesus”....the liberals would be screaming
Not everybody got off lucky; I understand that the Teddy Bear was beheaded at dawn and that it’s head was put on on a pike to show other stuffed animals that Islam won’t tolerate such impudence from infidel toys.
(snicker)
The savage wars of peace
Fill full the mouth of famine,
Bid the sickness cease,
And when your goal is nearest,
Your hope for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen folly,
Bring all your works to nought"
Kipling knew a thing or two.
snickers are 50 lashes
tee-hees are a 100
outright laughter warrants a fatwa from the religion of peace
Being deported from islambaland is no punishment at all! It is a great reward.
Declare war
That poem is very un-PC, which makes it great.
For everyone’s edification, here it is in full:
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
(The end for others sought)
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring all your hope to nought.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
No iron rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go, make them with your living
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man’s burden,
And reap his old reward—
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness.
By all ye will or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.
Take up the White Man’s burden!
Have done with childish days—
The lightly-proffered laurel,
The easy ungrudged praise:
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers.
In fact, deportation from that sewer of a nation is cause for celebration. ...and perhaps one day this do-gooder will realize that.
Just finished it ....Then read your post..Great minds think alike...
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