How absolutely disgusting it is to have charged a school teacher with insulting religion and inciting racial hatred. The teddy bear was named Mohammed by the school children in actual truth. Given that the name Mohammed pre-dates the birth of the prophet Mohammed, how can this possibly be blasphemous?
2007-11-28 05:37:00 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
To all those people who don't think it's that serious - would you like to take 40 lashes for her?
2007-11-28 06:36:42 · update #1
It was the children who voted to call the teddy Mohamed....seems to me rather than arresting and charging the teacher...some parents should have a serious word with their children. After all they're NOT getting the WHOLE MUSLIM RELIGION thing are they......don't they know the rules and its implications of worshiping a false idol??
I would have thought arresting the children would have been closer to the point. IF not then try arresting the parents who named their children Mohamed........or do the rules and offense only apply when done by none Muslim's?
They need to get with the 21st Century........lashes indeed.....! perhaps we should lash some of the Muslims who actually break our Laws!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-11-28 06:29:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm disgusted too. She is being punished because she tried to give her pupils something fun to do, and they chose a name which annoyed a few people. As Muslim children, they should have known it was blasphemy to name the teddy after Mohammed (but, having said that, they were only 7, so would they know any better?) Either way, something needs to be done about it, because it's really unfair. The Sudanese have a cruel regime, and the authorities are totally unreasonable. God help anyone who actively and knowingly incites racial hatred, what on earth would their punishment be? This needs sorting out, and Sudan need telling how outrageous and cruel this (and their regime) is.
2007-11-28 06:16:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
I find it totally disgusting... people go to these countries thinking they will make a difference to the lives of the children ... then through a simple act which contained no malice at all...their lives are turned upside down...I hope the government or someone helps her she doesn't deserve this absolutely ridiculous treatment..if anyone is inciting racial hatred its the Sudanese ..putting our backs up and making us despise their religious beliefs
2007-11-28 06:44:38 · answer #3 · answered by ǝuoʎʞɔɐʍ 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Disgusted is not strong enough a word for what I feel.
I heard tonight that she is to get 40 lashes, What a disgrace . Our government should step in and say no or else.
Others come to our country and get better treatment than we do and still complain, and then this happens. Is the hole world having a laugh at our expense.
2007-11-28 06:00:51 · answer #4 · answered by Brian I 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I agree that this is being taken waaay too far. It appears to have been an innocent mistake.
BUT.....when one accepts employment in another country, especially one with a large Muslim population, it is up to the employee to do his/her research on the culture and find out what is acceptable and what not to do. Generally western employers make sure employees know what is taboo.
In Islam, 'likenesses' are unacceptable, even going so far as to ban pictures or statues of people. For a teacher to then name a 'likeness' with the name of the Islamic prophet is blasphemy. She is lucky to be getting out of this with her life.
It may be some 'posturing' on the part of the Sudanese government - to make sure its known this is taken seriously. The governments of western nations are generally successful in managing to get their nationals out of predicaments and whisk them home, although this is not always the case.
What she did is rather difficult to understand for anyone with even a smattering of knowledge about Islam. It may be the Sudanese feel it was done to make fun of the religion - as, I'm afraid, many western ex-pats do.
What I find more difficult to understand is why the students (who MUST have known better) chose to name the teddy bear with the prophet's name.
2007-11-28 06:43:12 · answer #5 · answered by Sukara 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If this thing "goes the distance" it will backfire against these religious nut cases. If there are people from outside the country willing to help, they will be much less likely to do so now. This is a prime example of what is wrong with religious fundamentalism. I wonder what these lunatics would have done if it was a man that did the same thing. This is ridiculous - pure and simple.
2007-11-28 05:52:50 · answer #6 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Ths is a terrible story.....this teacher named the teddy in all innocence, the people condemming her should wake up a bit and start living in the present not the past..
Wonder what they'd do to my neighbour, who named his dog Mohammed....????
2007-11-28 06:30:27 · answer #7 · answered by Curious39 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have just about had it with Muslims! Its strange that a group of people who claim to be so "peaceful" are always the first to bomb a church, stone someone, and now deal out 40 lashes because someone had the audacity to name a damn stuffed bear after their beloved Mohammad! What the hell is wrong with these F****D up people!
2007-11-28 14:41:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I can't beleive what is happening to this poor woman. I can't beleive that they are getting so worked up about a teddy being called Mohammed......have they considered how many terrorists also have this name?!! Isn't that worse??
2007-11-28 05:54:04 · answer #9 · answered by murphywingedspur 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not disgusted i expected them to do something to take attention off the Darfur situation for ages really. Poor woman is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. while a government are trying any way they can to take attention away from the genocide and rape of little girls they are allowing to happen in a Jihad.
2007-11-28 05:49:46 · answer #10 · answered by BUST TO UTOPIA 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋