Posted by
The Conservative View on Friday, November 30, 2007 2:35:43 PM
Hold on to your teddy's, folks! The jihadist in Sudan want to execute a British teacher for allowing her students to name a stuffed bear, Mohammed! Instead of the recommend firing squad and forty lashes, she received 15 days in jail and deportation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EAY0Ajyn7I
What will the jihadist do next? Perhaps, decapitate all the teddy's in the world or take out a hit on the Build-A-Bear companies and Gund! Maybe they are angry since their name contains "Mohammed" and they don't like being compared to a soft, fluffy teddy bear.
It seems to me the teacher wanted to get her class excited about journaling and chose a beloved icon to help. What kid doesn't love a soft teddy?
I can visualize their excitement in voting on its name, how special they must have felt to bring it home with them over the weekend and write about what they did together. I bet they couldn't wait to write down their thoughts and then share them with the rest of the class. Did they ever dream it would become a global issue of this magnitude?
Let me just say, I agree that names are special. There is one name in all the world that changed my life...Jesus. I often turn the channel or walk out of movie theaters when His name is used in a blasphemous way. I guess that might be controversial to some but at least believers in America don't scream for the lives of movie producers who continue the defamation of God. Of course, Rosie O'Donnel would disagree.
As for the teacher, I think she wanted to do something good for these children and she did. Maybe, since she lived in a strong Islamic country, she should have used a little more wisdom in the choices for the name but her indiscretion is not worthy of death or deportation.
Why she would want to continue living there...beats me.
I think I would be more like Goldilocks...eat the porridge, take a nap and then get the heck out of there!