Would you joke about the "teddy bear" situation if it was your mother's life that was at stake here?

Question

You know what?

Usually I really enjoy the humour in this section.

But this is nauseating!

Err, to the "nice" people whom compare their mother to that teacher,
do you suppose that it is selfishness or lack of compassion for a human being that has blinded you?

Answer 1

The jokes are not directed at the teacher, whose situation is monstrous. No-one here has anything but complete sympathy for the situation she's in and complete comtempt for the fools who have imprisoned her - much less for the barbarians calling for her to face the firing squad. The situation is so absurd that laughing at the people who expect us to take their disgusting beliefs seriously is perfectly appropriate. Humour is rarely innocent.

Don't hurt yourself getting down off that high horse, by the way.

Answer 2

No, but that really has nothing to do with the issue. My mother would never go to Sudan because it is, as she puts it, "full of nutters" and she avoids places of which she holds that opinion.

Wanting to kill someone over a teddy bear is insane. Islam is insane. Religion is insane. A cheap appeal to emotion is not going to change the fact that a lot of people are just now beginning to figure that out.

Answer 3

I do not think this situation is funny at all, I think it is deplorable- that mother is going to be put to death because her daughter named her teddy bear- Muhammad. Come on now- if anyone is laughing at this the are sick- the law is ridiculous , yes, but what those people want to do to that poor woman is DEPLORABLE-

Answer 4

perhaps humour is the only way to deal with such situations. they are too absurd and surrealistic and yet happen right down the globe.
and as to my mother... she wouldnt' go teach in a god forsaken place like sudan and if she did she'd be aware of locan sensitivities to the prophet's name.

Answer 5

I don't think people are trying to downplay the tragedy of the situation, but poking fun at the extreme nature of the reaction. It really is stupid...archaic even.

Answer 6

There are two ways to approach life.

1. Everything can be joked about.

2. Everything MUST be joked about.

It's a subtle difference, but when you understand it, you understand why humor in necessary in situations like this.

Answer 7

Those people are messed up in the head. It's things like this that really turn me off religion. It is just an excuse for hatred and cruelty.

Answer 8

Things my mother would never do:

1) Go teach in Sudan

2) Screw with Islam

3) Care what people on Yahoo Answers think...

Answer 9

LETS SEE IF SHE WAS A CERTIFIED TEACHER SHE COULD HAVE BEEN TEACHING IN THE UK LORD KNOWS THEY GOOD TEACHERS, AS DOES THE U.S. NEED GOOD TEACHERS,SO THEN WHY WAS SHE OVER THERE,NOT TO SEE THAT BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY,TO HELP THE POOR CHILDREN,THERE'S PLENTY TO GO AROUND IN HER OWN COUNTRY.WELL LETS SEE THAT LEAVES MONEY AS THE REASON,
AS SHE PROBABLY KNOWS BY NOW EVERYTHING HAS IT'S PRICE.

Answer 10

You act like she didn't know there was a risk involved in going to the Sudan in the first place. I wouldn't go.

Right now, it looks like she will be OK. So chill out a little.