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British teacher arrested in Sudan over Mohammed teddy bear

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Nov 26, 2007, 13:01 GMT


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You May Mean Well - But.....Nov 26th, 2007 - 19:13:52

You may still lose your head in the Islamic world - anyway!


Muslims are being killed in the South of Sudan in the more horrific conditions and what concerns these Northerners most is a toy bear the children chose to name Muhammad, as a part of a school project.

That is Islam for you!
Beat your daughter to death, and the guy gets an understanding gesture from Islamic society. Draw a picture of the Prophet and you might as well bury the guy.

And I sure that this women had all the right excuses for Islam's contradictory sensitivities, and still managed to put her foot in it, simply by allowing the children to choose the common name of a toy in a wide ranging lesson which included democracy.


Islamophobia should be replaced with the new reality of IslamoFear – the fear of the real and present danger - of Islam and many of its various aspects.

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Should I name my Chimp Jesus and mother MaryNov 27th, 2007 - 01:34:20

The hatred for Islam is coming out of every hair of the Christians, what a great civilization and degenerated people!

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Saint Darwin says that Jesus descended from....Nov 27th, 2007 - 01:35:26

St Darwin says that Jesus descended from a chimpanzee. Is it true?

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FrancescoNov 27th, 2007 - 04:34:59

Anyone who is less than INFURIATED and OUTRAGED at this insanity is a naive dolt. These Islamo Fascists are out to kill anyone or anything that is not Muslim or Islamo-centric. England, and Europe in general, is about to be swallowed up by these psychotic religious zealots who live and die quite literally by the sword. Those of you who continue to let Political Correctness destroy Western Christian Culture in favor of the great ruse and lie of multi-culturalism an moral/cultural equivalency will only realize what the stakes are when the sword is slicing your throat! Germany, France, England, Holland... all abandoning their glorious histories and cultures and becoming infested with this blood thirsty archaic rot! Let's hope America, who we all like to laugh at and mock, has enough sense to stop these monsters. Read Edward Gibbon, Hillaire Belloc, or better still...Oriana Fallaci and learn something and stop caring about Britany Spears, Posh and Becks, and the garbage of today's infotainment and start addressing this BIG problem! Power to the people... Fight for Western Culture!

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Loren WoodsNov 27th, 2007 - 08:18:52

I dear a newspaper to publish a picture of this teddy bear named Mohamed.

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KMNov 27th, 2007 - 10:48:59

Remind me again, 'The religion of peace' - this is so exactly why?

Peaceful beheading
Peaceful kidnapping
Peaceful riots
Peaceful flag burning
Peaceful arrests for 'insulting' someone...

Islam world need to take a big step back and look at themselves - it this the way you want to behave?

Respect is nothing you demand, you should earn it. There's a long way to go.

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Garrett 'Garrdor' DeRoseNov 28th, 2007 - 16:49:03

I personally have been a proud supporter of the people of Islam and offer them copious amounts of respect.

It's difficult to be a pacifist when situations like this make the headlines. It's much more difficult to respect these people and their communities/governments when they persecute people not of their faith. Sharia law should only apply to those of that faith.

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John RogersNov 28th, 2007 - 19:21:13

What did the teddy do to deserve this? How would you like to be named after a polygamist who practiced child marriage, sanctioned attacking + killing in the month of truce, lying, spreading his religion with warfare,etc? Read the biographies! Remember that most National Socialists in Germany in the 1930's were decent folk - they just couldn't or wouldn't stand up to the evil in thei midst ... any parallels here??

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GooseNov 29th, 2007 - 01:39:56

I named my toilet Allah, is that wrong?

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catNov 29th, 2007 - 13:48:46

Barbaric.

If this teacher gets even one lash, we should immediately withdraw all aid.

According to the BBC, the Islamic Society in the UK sells teddy bears with prophets names on them. For example, you can get Adam the Prayer Bear. Adam is a prophet.

If the Islamic Society can do that, then why is this lady (who did not actually name the bear, the children did) being punished at all?

If Muslims themselves can’t decide on this, how are the rest of us going to be able to figure it out?

Evidently the children couldn’t figure it either.

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AshrafNov 29th, 2007 - 22:39:34

Oh this is rich! Calling a teddy bear 'Muhammad', what a heinous crime!
To think, she could have been lashed or worse for such a despicable act of 'insulting Islam'!
Isn't life in an Islamic country glorious? OH, how I long for Sharia law here in the West!
Hey Sudan, if you think that was bad, check this out:
Fact: according to Islam's own scriptures, your so-called 'prophet' Muhammad was an illiterate, lice-infested pedophile rapist mass-murdering pirate, whose 'teachings' are responsible for the vast majority of the world's suffering since his miserable scam was invented 1400 years go!
Calling the toy 'Muhammad' was an insult to teddy bears everywhere!


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AshrafNov 29th, 2007 - 23:18:43

Re. 'Should I name my Chimp Jesus and mother Mary'

Go ahead & name it whatever you want, the Christian world won't even notice.
But offend Islam and the whining never ends!

No doubt peace loving Muslims everywhere will be blowing themselves up in crowded public places over this ...

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PhillipDec 2nd, 2007 - 16:02:05

All of us in the office now refer to the toilet as the Mohamed. Hope it catches on.

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HamidaMar 27th, 2008 - 17:24:06

i am a muslim and i don't agree with some of the comments made by people saying the hatred for islam is coming.
i believ in allah with all my heart and even if i have to die for islam i will. i am proud to be a muslim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
allah is the creator of the world and mohammed is his last messenger

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mikeNov 27th, 2008 - 11:19:24

Absolutely rediculous! It is no wonder our world is such a mess when things such as this are taken so seriously!might as well stay home everyday and hope you don't offend someone with the way you walk out to get ur mail!

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