An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Absurd - Part 2
Bid to stop whipping over toy bear
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that officials were working to secure the early release of a British teacher who faces being whipped in Sudan after she allowed her class to name a teddy bear “Mohammed.”
Gillian Gibbons, 54, was arrested Sunday after she asked her class of seven-year-olds to come up with a name for the toy as part of a school project, her head teacher told CNN.
Robert Boulos, the head of Unity High School in the capital Khartoum, said naming the teddy bear was “a totally innocent mistake” and that Gibbons had never intended to cause offense.
He said Gibbons had asked the children to pick their favorite name for the new class mascot, which she was using to aid lessons about animals and their habitats.
Classmates took turns taking the teddy bear home with them, accompanied by a diary with the bear’s name written in the front of it, Boulos said.
I suggest every parent in the Muslim world be whipped at least 40 times for naming their kid Mohammed, or even considering it. If you can’t put the name to an image, then they are screwed.
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