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2007-11-28 Africa Horn

Update : Briton Charged in Religious Hatred Case

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-28 13:23|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Just imagine how cool it would be if we were allowed to play by the same rules. Could you imagine how many muslims would be punished for inciting religious hatred against Christians and Jews? Whew!!!!

Posted by PlanetDan 2007-11-28 14:06|| 2007-11-28 14:06|| Front Page Top

#2 calling the incident part of a broader Western "plot" against Islam

Cuz naming teddy bears is how we undermine threatening cultures.

"What has happened was not haphazard or carried out of ignorance, but rather a calculated action and another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam," the Sudanese Assembly of the Ulemas said the statement.

There can be no more clear indication that this Islamic body suffers almost tragically from Dangerous Quantities of Spare Time. I suggest we liven up their next assembly with a brief but dramatic visit by Mister Spooky.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-28 14:09|| 2007-11-28 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The teddy was named after one of the children in class.

Obviosuly allah is the worlds weakest god, after all which other supreme being would be insulted by a soft furry teddy bear?

I think naming a bear moHAMed is appropriate as moHAMed also slept with children.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-11-28 14:27|| 2007-11-28 14:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Reports out today (Drudge? I forget) seem to indicate that it was a student who suggested the name "I named after myself, she didn't do it"
Will have to wait and see if that carries any weight. Color me sceptical.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2007-11-28 14:31|| 2007-11-28 14:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I do understand some people's drive to help the underpriviliged, but I'm starting to wonder about westerners (especially older persons and women) who put themselves at risk for this sort of scenario by choosing to be teachers, aid workers, what have you in places like Sudan. If this is how the locals reward efforts to reach out, I ask, Why bother?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-11-28 15:27|| 2007-11-28 15:27|| Front Page Top

#6 How pathetic, Mohammads just another dull boring name, a very un-original one at that.

Posted by Oztralian 2007-11-28 15:40|| 2007-11-28 15:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I've decided to name my toilet Allah and my Bidet Muhammed.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-28 15:42|| 2007-11-28 15:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Why bother?

I'd wager it's because some Westerners are so consumed with guilt over how the Third World has been perpetually victimized by us Capitalist vultures that they just can't help themselves and must hurry off into the savage wilderness to uplift their poor little brown brothers.

I'm sure there's also a contingent of Christians out there doing the Lord's will as well but I think that's all going to change as Islam continues to prey upon unarmed Christians in Islamic lands.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-28 15:48|| 2007-11-28 15:48|| Front Page Top

#9 I say we need some Kurtz types to be sent in. "Annihilate the all!"

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-11-28 15:55|| 2007-11-28 15:55|| Front Page Top

#10 The Unity High School, a private English-language school with elementary to high school levels, was founded by Christian groups, but 90 percent of its students are Muslim, mostly from upper-class Sudanese families.

Ms. Gibbons is simply the means to shut down the Unity High School, or at the very least, extort an even higher tax. If the sponsors of the Unity HS play ball, Gibbons will likely pay a fine and be expelled. If not ...

Posted by mrp 2007-11-28 16:01|| 2007-11-28 16:01|| Front Page Top

#11 I was wondering what would motivate a 50+ year old female teacher to travel to one of the world's depraved and brutal countries for a job. Is it so bad in the UK now that a teacher cannot find work suitable to her qualifications and ambitions? Or, is she a closet sympathizer or worse an idealist bent on copying the plot of The King and I? Remember that idiot that married Binny's son and that newspaper women who went over to the dark side in Afghanistan and is now a complete Dhimmi moron.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-11-28 16:22|| 2007-11-28 16:22|| Front Page Top

#12 There are many motivations, none particularly well thought out. Now, the link below is about ladies on holiday in Kenya, and has nothing to do with islamomurderwackiness, but an element of disregarded danger lurks nonetheless:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071126/lf_nm/kenya_sextourism_dc_2

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-11-28 16:42|| 2007-11-28 16:42|| Front Page Top

#13 PlanetDan made a point. Zenster has made the same point many times. Reciproscity. Lack thereof.

Imagine for a moment -if you can - the hate preached from the Koran, Hadith and Sira. Imagine further that the words Jew, Christian, polytheist, unbeliever, infidel...whatever... are taken out and you substitute the words muslim or islam. Imagine the world - from the time of Christ - if that world practiced the ideology of islam (has have muslims since the time of Moe). There would be no muslims and we would not be here at RB because there would not have been 9-11 and there would be no muslims. BUT FOR islam and muslims, how much conflict would you see in the world? Be honest. When you can honestly answer that question get back to me.

The Brit teacher in Sudan held on bogus charges of insulting the so called prophet...if Brown had any balls..which we know he doesn't...he would order her safe surrender to the nearest embassy. Yesterday. Short of that, Khartoum goes bye bye. I would not placate the muzzie sensiblity for a moment.

All of which goes a long way toward explaining why I am not a negotiator in Annopolis.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-11-28 18:12|| 2007-11-28 18:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Carruthers! Summon General Gordon. I have a mission for him.

Posted by Peter Carroll 2007-11-28 18:27|| 2007-11-28 18:27|| Front Page Top

#15 I think yall are wrong to question her motives. Who knows what effect she might have on one single person who could change things. She wanted to teach children. A noble endevour.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-11-28 18:29|| 2007-11-28 18:29|| Front Page Top

#16 I don't know British history well enough, but there must have been a time when the Brits would not have let one of their subjects be so brutalized and humiliated - at least, not without sending The Parachute Regiment, an SAS regiment, a carrier battle group, and assorted other forces to recover their subject.

But - I guess maybe that as before the era when a Royal Navy ship's boarding party could be seized, held, and humiliated without meaningful retribution.

Sovereignty should not necessarily mean immunity from consequences of barbarism.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2007-11-28 19:24|| 2007-11-28 19:24|| Front Page Top

#17 Sovereignty should not necessarily mean immunity from consequences of barbarism.

I'd take that a step further, Kemosabe, and say that retention of any sovereignty should issue directly from staunch opposition to barbarity. Those who are non-committal should look forward to having their own sovereigntyamongst other thingsdecidedly violated.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-28 19:56|| 2007-11-28 19:56|| Front Page Top

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