The Mohammed Teddy Bear Blasphemy!
The Times of London follows up:
A British teacher facing 40 lashes in Sudan over a school teddy bear named
Muhammad will discover today whether she will be charged with blasphemy.Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being questioned for a second day by police in Khartoum on suspicion of insulting Islam’s prophet for allowing her seven-year-old pupils to give the toy the name of the prophet.
She was moved to a cell at the CID Criminal Police Exploration Bureau for further questioning. A file on the case will be sent to the department of public prosecutions and a judge should decide today whether she should be charged.
Robert Boulos, the director of Unity High School, the British school where Ms Gibbons worked, said that she was in “very high spirits and being treated well”.
Interrogated and jailed over a bunch of stuffed animals.
Where is Amnesty International?
From Michelle Malkin, AYFKM!!!!!!!!!!!I going to rename one of my teddy bears Mohammed! Yes Snoop has Teddy bears! oh screw you!
Sphere: Related ContentIf it isn’t cartoons or Western fast-food joints or Valentine’s day cards or beauty pageants or books or speeches or Playboy magazines or soccer balls that have the Religion of Perpetual Outrage up in arms, it’s something else. It’s always something. You can never assuage the unassuageable. You can never anticipate what pretext they’ll use next to claim “insult” and demand submission. Today, it’s teddy bears. Yes, teddy bears. The Times of London reports:
A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was arrested at her lodgings at Khartoum’s Unity High School yesterday, accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam.
Her colleagues said that they feared for her safety after reports that groups of young men had gathered outside the Khartoum police station where she was taken and were shouting death threats…
…Teachers at the school, in central Khartoum only a mile from the River Nile, said that Ms Gibbons had made an innocent mistake by letting her pupils choose their favourite name for the toy as part of a school project.
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November 27th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
You should name them all Mohammad.
I don’t know if I ever told you this, but I had about 7 cats named in your honor.
Last year, when we were down to just a few barn cats (our lone female being fixed) we had a stray show up and drop a litter in our barn.
One was all black - he got named Charley Murphy. One was all white - he got named Ric James (obviously my sons have this thing for Chappelle’s Show).
But all the rest were indistinguishable, mottled tabbies. We named one Snoop in your honor, cat-lover that you are, but we could never tell it from the others. Is that Snoop? No, that one’s Snoop.
So they all got named Snoop, and that made calling them much easier.
Of course, they ignored us just the same…