Perceived Insult To Islam Turns To Assault on Reason

by TheBigRuski | November 29, 2007 at 07:48 pm

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Sudan: Officials seize a British teacher’s approval of students ‘Muhammad’ teddy bear to play the culture card


This Week’s Top Scrooge - November 30, 2007


By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com


I suppose there are worse atrocities in the world.


Sure, the Sudanese government’s imprisonment of a kindly-looking teacher for the “hate crime” of allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad may not seem like a big deal to some.


After all, her sentence is only 15 days (five of which she has already served) and the maximum 6-month sentence and 40 lashes were not dished out by the Sudanese judge. I guess to prison veterans (and Muslim jailers), this is just a walk in the park. But for a teacher?


In finding that British primary school teacher, Gillian Gibbons, is guilty of insulting Islam by allowing her seven-year-old pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials have deliberately assaulted reason.


The Sudanese leaders have attempted to use Gibbons and Teddy ‘Muhammad’ Bear to call the rest of the non-Muslim world ignorant for not bowing to them. They are saying that all of us must walk on egg shells, careful to not accidently be offensive or we will be lashed, imprisoned, or killed...


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Barry Artiste
Barry Artiste
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at 08:52 on November 30th, 2007

TheBigRuski, right on, the issue  all of us must walk on egg shells, careful to not
accidently be offensive or we will be lashed, imprisoned, or killed pretty much says it all to these turd burglars.

Though these are definitely the minority as most muslims think they are completely out to lunch 

Good story

 

Barry 

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November 29, 2007 at 07:48 pm by TheBigRuski, 390 views, 1 comment

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