15 days in jail for naming teddy bear Mohammed

[Archduke Tips]

A British teacher was in Sudan and as a class project asked her students to name a teddy bear. They named the teddy bear Mohammed. Because she allowed this, she was sentenced to 15 days in jail for insulting religion.

How ridiculous is that?

[AChimp]

It makes me wonder why people want to actually go to those countries to live and work.

[MetalMilitia]

Surely the children should go to jail? I'll write to my MP and get this issue resolved!

[Blackjack]

BIG story in the UK at the moment. Popular local opinon is the UK should sever all aid and diplomatic relations, and all those British foreign aid workers, teachers and volunteers building schools should return home.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

I think they should have named the bear "Mohammed" and then allowed a pig to fuck it, before ramming a copy of the Koran into it's ass and flushing it down a toilet....

[Blackjack]

You would!

[RaNkeri]

I remember reading that the public opinion in Sudan was that the man should be executed.


Extreme.

[Emu]

It's a woman.

[ScruU2wice]

don't let them find that out, you don't even want to know what they'd do then.

[derrida]

a teddy bear named after mohammed? that is some idolatrous shit. next time learn about the crazy darkies you choose to live amongst, lady.

[Sethomas]

Without saying anything else, it is disingenuous for the media to claim "she named it after the Prophet". She gave it a name shared by the Prophet, but the name was determined by a class vote. I don't know if it still holds this record, but the Muhammed was long the most common name on Earth. Yeah, she should have definitely known better than to name a toy that, but still.

[sloth]

The school she taught at was a very expensive, very Westernised school. It's conceivable but pretty stupid that she might not have appreciated the difference between the kind of attitude the school tried to portray and that of its employees. After all, if I read correctly it was the school's secretary who complained.
And yes, clerics were calling for her execution, but the actual punishment was commuted from 40 lashes to prison time.
I just cannot see how this is anything other than a Sudanese witch-hunt. Sudan wins both ways: by 'bowing' to international pressure they appear receptive to Western demands whilst, on the other hand, sending out the message (to those who want to hear it) that the West continues to disrespect and defile Islam.