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December 4, 2007
Muslims let teacher go
Remember the recent controversy about the Teddy Bear Teacher in Sudan? If you don't, let me summarize: a British schoolteacher in Sudan brought a teddy bear to her class and decided to let the children name the thing. They decided that Muhammad was a good name. It was blasphemy, according to the locals, and she received 15 days in prison followed by deportation. Technically, she should have been killed, and I suspect she wasn't because she was white or from England, or both. She's back in England now. Mobs in Sudan were calling for her death for this blasphemy. I like the way the Archibishop of Canterbury described it as an "absurdly disproportionate response" to a "minor cultural faux pas".
Not all Muslim authorities even agree that toys can't bear the name. Some think that you get a free ticket to heaven if you name your boy Muhammad. Some children name their toys after the Prophet, and they aren't killed, nor are their parents for allowing it. I wonder if there will be an uproar over the CAIR bears*.
I've had it. What kind of people would kill you for something like this? What kind of ridiculously insecure people could want this sort of thing to happen? Muslims in Sudan, apparently. And probably anywhere and everywhere there are people with these types of extreme beliefs. Anywhere where the chief religion effectively tells you to kill. Even if this type of thing is not in the Koran, it's close enough to be considered Islam as far as I am concerned. I find it even ridiculous that you can even go to jail for something like this. It is clear that the toy was not meant to be used as any representation of the Prophet, so even in a country where religion is never mocked in any way, shape or form, you can't say that she was doing that. But even so, what the hell?
No, my tolerance for this religion has decreased quite a bit.
*-CAIR = Council on American-Islamic Relations
Posted by JonasParker at December 4, 2007 3:30 PM
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