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| Briton held for 'insulting Islam' |
| 2007-11-26 |
| London - A British teacher has been arrested in Sudan for allegedly insulting the Prophet™ Muhammad after her students named a teddy bear after Islam's founder, says the foreign office. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was detained on Sunday, it said. According to the foreign office, she was arrested after she had allowed her seven-year-old pupils to choose a name for a stuffed teddy bear, and they chose the name Muhammad. Nice lil' robots. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #4 I can bearly restrain myself. |
| Posted by: doc 2007-11-26 14:01 |
| #3 Where's the Kool-aid? |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-11-26 13:37 |
| #2 Early, the "mohammed" name was prohibited to muslims, so to avoid any thief, liar, etc, etc, bearing this Holy Name; trouble is, mulims are taught to IMITATe old mo in everything, so eventually, tradition was stronger, and this is a ridiculously common muslim name, even moree so counting the variants (mehmet, mahmoud,...). Islam doesn't bode well for originality, just see the choice of those kiddies. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-26 12:12 |
| #1 So... all those folks named Mohammed are insulting the prophet? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-11-26 11:31 |