International Law
Teacher Who Let Children Name Bear Muhammad Faces Lashing
Posted Nov 26, 2007 3:00 PM CST
By Molly McDonough
A British teacher is under arrest and faces lashing and deportation from Sudan, where she is accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad by allowing children at an affluent school to name a teddy bear after him.
Gillian Gibbons was taken into custody in Khartoum on Sunday after parents complained that she allowed their 6- and 7-year-old children to name the bear, the BBC reports.
For devout Muslims, any depiction of Muhammad is considered blasphemous, AFP reports. If Gibbons is charged, she could be sent to prison, be lashed, fined, and deported.
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Nov 26, 2007 5:00 PM CST
Now, here’s a good example of the value of seperation of law and religion. Being socially stigmatized or professionally censured for politically incorrect blunders is one thing, but a good old fashoined lashing, well, that’s quite another.
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J.D.
Nov 28, 2007 10:58 AM CST
Perhaps the teddy was named, not after a prophet, but after one of the many convicted terrorists who also have this name?
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