I wish I could’ve blogged about the case of Gillian Gibbons, the teacher from the UK who was threatened with lashes in the Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammed. I’d wanted to get around to it, but other busy things kept me from r…

A seven-year-old Sudanese boy has defended his British teacher, who stands accused of insulting Islam’s prophet, saying that he had suggested calling the class teddy bear Muhammad because it was his own name.
Police arrested Gillian Gibbons, 54, on Sunday after complaints by parents that she had acted blasphemously in allowing the toy to be called Muhammad. Gibbons, a teacher at the exclusive British-style Unity high school in Khartoum, had asked her pupils to name the bear as part of a project to teach them about animals and their habitats. “The teacher asked me what I wanted to call the teddy,” the boy told Reuters. “I said Muhammad. I named it after my name.”

If only people got as worked up over Sudan’s genocidal killings in Darfur as they do over 40 laches to a teacher

Hey B-Billy, here’s your original statement. “If only people got worked up…” implies that people aren’t worked up and hey look we are only worked up because she is white. It also implied that people are somehow not “worked up” about the situation in Sudan. It doesn’t matter that you tried to add caveats at the end (like politicians trying to cover their own butt), if you didn’t mean it you wouldn’t have said it.

Most (all?) of us are “worked up” but we are aware that the US and UK military is stretched thin as it is right now and since other Western countries aren’t really going to do anything it there isn’t much that can be done. African Union? Heh… no. UN peacekeepers? Maybe 30 years ago. Not in this time and age (see Lebanon 2006).

Who knows, you might have been trying to be witty and having it completely backfire on you. I could be wrong in interpreting what you’ve said. If I am, I am sorry.

Think about it. Suppose someone decides it would be a lot of fun to hike alone up a desolate mountain in the middle of a blizzard with no supplies, gets stranded and calls out for rescue on a satellite phone.

I can’t believe you’d equate the actions of Ms Gibbons with the moron you’re describing. The former inconveniences herself to help others, while the latter inconveniences himself by playing the retard. The former’s actions benefits others while the latter’s actions are of dubious value.

You need to understand the school she’s working in. Unity High School was founded by the coptic community with the backing of the Anglican church. It’s a school that admits both Christians AND Muslims.

I find it a rather large leap in logic to equate a teacher who has willingly done that, with say some crazed American who flies to the Gaza strip and burns American flags.

“The teacher asked me what I wanted to call the teddy,” Reuters news agency quoted the youth as saying. “I said, ‘Muhammad.’ I named it after my name.”
…was arrested… after complaints from parents that she had named the toy Muhammad.

Why of course, naming the kid Muhammad is fine, but not the Teddy…

/Sarc

Think about it. Suppose someone decides it would be a lot of fun to hike alone up a desolate mountain in the middle of a blizzard with no supplies, gets stranded and calls out for rescue on a satellite phone. The National Guard spends tens of thousands of dollars and risks their own lives rescuing the moron. Shouldn’t the moron fully reimburse the National Guard, as a partial disincentive to future ill-conceived adventures? That’s what this reminds me of.

Archon was doing his impression of Southernboy and mocking you.

To suggest Michelle opened this thread because this teacher is white should get you a warning at least. I CHOSE to think you were referring to her captors and NOT making that leap.

Do not test me on the Bible – I know more than you think I know.

S-boy tried what you are now doing and before long, he was gone.

This thread should not include you teaching others about faith or Jesus. Unless you are out laying down your life, you would be hard pressed to preach to me. [Shameless plug] Click on my name above then, try again.

I still implore you, keep it up.

I think Archon has confused Jesus with Saul.