Mo Teddy Bear teacher is home, but what has she learned?
I’m afraid that British teacher Gillian Gibbons doesn’t quite appreciate how her ordeal fits into the big picture of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage:
A British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of a writing project arrived home Tuesday after being pardoned and said she was “very upset to think that I might have caused offense to people.”
Gillian Gibbons told reporters after arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport that she was looking forward to seeing her family and friends.
“I’m just an ordinary middle-aged primary school teacher. I went out there to have an adventure, and got a bit more than I bargained for,” Gibbons said at a brief news conference.
“I don’t think anyone could have imagined it would snowball like this,” she added.
Actually, it’s all too imaginable: They worked up Soccer Ball Rage , Rushdie Rage, MoCartoon Rage, Burger King Ice Cream Cone Rage, Koran Flushing Rage, Valentine’s Day Rage, Veil Rage, Pope Rage, Fallaci Rage, Miss World Pageant Rage, and Rushdie Knighthood Rage.
Teddy Bear Rage was no surprise to anyone with open eyes.
Tellingly, the lesson Gibbons has learned is the lesson of submission. Check out this little anecdote from the Times of London:
Looking tired but excited on the flight from Khartoum to Dubai, she chatted with an embassy security guard and the two peers who lobbied for her freedom, planning what to do on her return. A fellow business-class passenger said: “The four of them talked almost the entire time, laughing happily.”
Lady Warsi, speaking on the Emirates flight from Khartoum, told The Times: “This has been a very difficult week for Gillian and she has come out of it amazingly well. We all just feel delighted and privileged in playing our part in securing her release, and we are all looking forward to getting home.”
For dinner, cabin staff provided Ms Gibbons with Arabic mezze, followed by grilled Iranian chicken kebabs. At one stage Lord Ahmed came dangerously close to joking about Mohamed and the teddy bear, but Ms Gibbons interjected: “We don’t joke about that any more.”
Mission accomplished.
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I hope that after she has a little more time away from the Islamic bullies who put her through this she’ll better understand how little she actually had to do with it.
Wow, what to say about old Gillian? I guess she doesn’t “get it” yet but maybe when she thinks about it over the coming weeks, months and years, a light will go on. But perhaps not or maybe she doesn’t want to admit to herself and to the world just how close she came to being brought home not in business class but in the cargo hold, sans head.
I WILL joke about Islam.
Her conversion to dimmitude is complete. She is now a useful idiot to the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. Obviously she and many in the world have learned nothing about the intolerance of this medieval death cult or at least only get their world news from leftist propaganda establishments. I tried to watch a segment on Fox news this morning about the incident and the woman who was an expert on the area stated the President of Sudan would look pretty good after this incident. It was revolting to see this woman act as another apologist for the latest Muslim outrage over nothing.
Well anyone can joke behind a computer! Try going out in the street with a sign insulting Islam or perhaps carry a teddy bear with Mohammed written on it.
I double dog dare you.
I’m going to cut her a ton of slack. Who can imagine the trauma she’s experienced over the past 10 days, wondering if she’d ever live to tell of anything she’s thinking or experienced. These comments were made on her way home from this hideous ordeal, wondering if she’d be lashed or killed by this crazy mob, and she probably had not had a chance to gain her wits about her yet.
I’m too happy about her safe release to judge her state of mind (not that I would ever be qualified to do so anyway, I s’pose).
Thank God she’s released.
Sad. How can she possibly not realize that THEY were the ones in the wrong? Even if she was wrong to have allowed the stuffed animal to be named the “M” name, they wanted to kill her for it.
Maybe she’s just too scared for her life to say what she really thinks/feels???
The URL religionofperpetualoutrage.com appears to be available, for anyone interested.
I think the woman said what she needed to say to stay alive and will continue to do so. Some have said this was like the battered wife of an abusing husband not sending him to jail. That would be one-on-one. The world is watching and listening. At least I hope it is.
I might be wrong, but didn’t the children choose the name for the teddy bear??? Were any of the children in her class named Mohammed?? Jail time and threats of death for a school teacher…once again, the ROP shows it needs little provocation to rage on about something.
I’ve renamed my pet squirrel Mohamed. He loves all kind of “nuts” and thought it was appropriate.
She simply doesn’t understand how close she was to being whipped or killed. She obviously wanted to do some good to have gone to Sudan in the first place. Going there also required either extreme courage or extreme naiveté. It has become clear which which one it was.
Remember Rushdie.
(Sigh…)
Yet another example of caving in to these barbarian bullies.
Yet one more reminder that Europe appears to be very likely dying off – literally as well as figuratively and conceptually.
Just finished Walter Laqueur’s “The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent”.
Some of the Amazon reviews I read before purchasing the book were correct: the book rambles a bit too much, and seems to lack a clear message…until very near the end.
Understand that I am paraphrasing (and sorry, no time to reread as if planning to introduce evidence into a court case); but, Laqueur in the final 10 or so pages clearly seems to be RECOMMENDING FURTHER APPEASEMENT and ACCOMODATION of the Muslims that have infiltrated into and terrorized Europe – including some aspects of Sharia law.
In other words, Europe…give up.
At first I was a bit stunned…but then, on reflection, I realized that the author is quite possibly (and I may be wrong) yet another leftist, secularist, moral relativist, with the associated worldview, that feels that our current existence is all that there is or ever will be; that nothing is any better than anything else; that nothing is worth fighting or – Gasp! – dying for…so, let’s just submit (Islam means submission, after all), turn around, bend over, and take it, and just nicely ask the animals to be gentle while they’re at it.
Defend Western civilization?
Ppffsstt…why bother?
I joked while on combat deployments, I will continue to joke now that I am home.
Perhaps if you saw these barbarians up close you wouldn’t be such a champion of their mindless violence.
Why is it that you fled to the USA again?
Thought for the day: she’s obviously a politically correct liberal worldview junkie. She’s upset because she has caused offense “to people”, meaning in this instance jihadists who want to see US streets awash in innocent blood out of sick and irrational hatred. I’m thinking that if she were told that many people are offended by her lack of common sense in a dangerous world in which he actions could fuel more violence against US innocents, she would probably not feel upset for having caused offense and would instead gently but firmly lecture us for not being sensitive to multicultural diverity.
Anyone taking bets?
She’s probably learned:
adventure can be too adventurous
7 year olds can’t be trusted to name a bear
heads are meant to stay on shoulders
open-date fly anytime plane tickets should be kept available
One thing to notice is the inconsistency of Islam’s overall theology.
When Muslims claim Mohamet is just a man, they are lying. They elevate the guy to the status of divinity, because any alleged smear of his image or name is tantamount to breaking the 2nd commandment of worshiping no graving images. Mohamet is essentially a surrogate Christ. Anyone truly interested in challenging Muslims must press them on this.
Fred
Longer than a Michener Novel…
Yesterday, while shopping at the local Belk’s store, I aksed the clerk at the checkout line if they sold Teddy Bears. She said they did and sked me what kind I was looking for.
I told her that I wanted to buy 100 of them, name after Big MO and send them to the Sudanese Embassy. She laughed and several of the people in line offered their support.
My wife, however, did not. She told me I was bad and threatened to leave me home unless I shut up. I told her that I loved her but so one could keep me quiet.
I take a mohammed every morning, then
flush
skpman15
You are correct … the kids did the naming in an exercise designed to teach them about animals … she wanted them to also understand how an election works … they suggested the names and then voted on the name to give the Teddy Bear … also there were a number of the children named Mohamed in the class … it is tantamount to many Hispanics naming kids Jesus and is the most popular name in Islamic countries … I saw a report that gave the 3 names the kids put in and the number of Mohammeds in the class but I can’t seem to find the link … if I come across it I will post it …
I’m wondering what her response will be when they start protesting in front of her house calling for her execution? Remember the “Behead those that insult Islam” posters in London?
I don’t think this is over by a long shot.
Should have gone to Kenya instead.
An ordinary primary school teacher who can’t count her ears twice and come up with the same number both times.Much less add two plus two and come up with four.She deserved the 15 or so lashes just for being so dam*ed stupid.
I didn’t hear to much in the way of gratefulness about the outrage by the “free world” that saved her bacon.OOps, I mean hide. But, she is back home in Londanistan.
How long do you think it will be before some dopey putz like Gillian Gibbons has her head hammered on a stake outside a mosque for some similar trivial offense against Islam?
trinitytim
I was going to name my cat Mohammed but he already has a name so I just named each of his brown litter box surprises Mohammed instead.
blues said:
We don’t know anything about this woman, other than that she had a heart to reach out to the children of this war-torn region and provide them with an education. Truly, your comment should be removed by MM.
People, let’s let the dust settle in this woman’s life before you judge her so harshly. And for those who infer that she did not thank those who secured her release, we don’t know all of her comments. We only see what is reported.
Move on.
Oh, and to the scatalogical comedians: grow up.
TrinityTim, sounds like you need to shop with my husband and me sometime. We would have had a blast! We do that kind of thing too and usually there is someone who rolls their eyes at us. I am sure your wife is a wonderful woman though!
I don’t know what her motive in going to Sudan was. I never would have done it. But she may have thought she could make a difference – no matter how naive some think that position is.
I’m glad she’s safe. Right now and understandably so, she’s sore and sensitive to the situation she found herself in. I wouldn’t want to talk or joke about it right away. But I wouldn’t fly under the radar for the rest of my life, either.
Only time will tell if she’s learned anything. I think she has, even if that lesson isn’t apparent in her current actions.
I wholeheartedly believe she will look around her (in the UK), see shari’a creep, and fight against it. She will never forget what happened to her, over what – at worst – was a cultural faux pas. And I believe she’s going to fight back when the time is right.
Ann Coulter said it best:
“Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and moderate Muslim walk into a bar….”
Hear Hear, englishqueen01.
Unbelievable! When I saw her picture I thought “what a nice woman, she doesn’t deserve this”…but now I think what a foolish and weak woman who is totally lacking gratitude for her culture and to the people who wanted her to be freed.
I heard on the radio today that she said she experienced “nothing but kindness from the Sudanese”. What??? What about the barbarians that were asking for your death? Is this considered “kindness”???
Of course we can’t be critical of any other culture that isn’t Western or white, no matter how barbaric, intolerant or backward, can we? *eyes rolling*
Pay attention, class. This is a prime example of the Sheep. Note the glassy stare and desire to simply blend in with the herd. Observe the cowed disposition, put in place by fear of the Wolf. But do not dispair. When the Wolf attacks again (and he will), he will learn that not all who run with the flock are sheep.
School teacher, sociologist, and saint?
I can see it now…(read this with your best English accent)…“yes, they held a very sharp knife to my throat, and threateded to lop my head off, but it really was a beautiful knife! It was so sharp, and they treated me kindly, so I’m sure it wouldn’t have hurt had they actually done it. Lovely people, really!”
My guess is that’s she’s one of the many aging Englishwomen who have been partaking in sex tourism in places like Kenya. She just went on a really low-budget trip.
I think I’m going to read her book (you know there’s one in the works as we speak) and maybe see the movie. But I’ll be surprised if it comes off as anything but her fault for being insensitive as a result of her “Western” upbringing.
Although I hope she blasts islam for the barbarity it invokes in it’s followers.
I ‘ve worn my “Mohammad the bomb” tshirt in public numerous times. Does that count?
sausage. What are you insinuating?
Terrig.. Anytime. I get to Aiken/Augusta once a month on business but I don’t go shopping each month.
DL.. the only “eye roll” I got was from one middle age guy who I later found out was a lawyer. He looked like he wanted to say something but never did.
I wish he would’ve because that would have made for a wonderful display of grinchdom. Of course, the wife of 36 years would probably have dropped me off at home and locked the door. Gotta lover her though.
The teacher was incapable of learning what would be obvious to anyone with a working mind.
The teacher was a lousy teacher. If she never “offended” them, they should have sent her home for trying to ruin their kid’s brains with a lot of fuzzy-wuzzy garbage–you know, the junk we’re teaching our own kids.
Islam is the joke!
According to Rick, Islam worships the same G-d as the Christians, and the Jews.
Haahhaaaaahhhee…
& THERE! you have it…..or rather, there IT! has you.
Your basic well-intentioned, clueless & uninformed ‘teacher’ in charge of the next generation’s perception & understanding of the real World….kinda reminds me of the public school system teaching Kwanzaa right now.
http://www.undergroundnotes.com/kwanzaa.htm
http://www.redstate.com/stories/culture/kwanzaa_the_fradulent_holidy
I have officially named my cat Mohammed , it was Sophie… that should get me in deep trouble, ya think? As for being brave away from my computer… bravery has nothing to do with it. I have a charcoal drawing I did of Mohammed hanging in my office, and will immediately purchase what I can that has the murderer’s image on it. I presently wear a US Border Patrol ball cap in public along with shirts that say “Welcome to America, Now speak English” on one and ” Former Embryo” on another. Now looking for “Mumia Sucks” T- shirt.
I have officially named my stuffed pig “Mohammed”. It was just “Piggy”, but I’m just lookin’ for trouble.
Offending Islam isn’t the problem, Islam is.
To the wackos like this woman.You are so sensitive to other cultures,what if my culture demands I be INsensitive.Will you be sensitive to my culture?Campassion is commendable,but only to the point where it stops making sense.
Get you in more trouble if you name your dog Mohammed, #47.
Muslims seem to be consistently over looking the line
in the Koran that says, “Respect the people of the Book.” The people of the Book are the Jews.
I think the real reason they went all “head-choppy” on this woman was NOT because she allowed the bear to be named Mo, but because she taught the kids how civilized society works and let them VOTE :0 THAT was the mistake. There is no voting in the Caliphate!!!
Sausage hasn’t figured out there are lots of us out there that actually DO stand up publicly for our country and protect his freedoms. He thinks his freedom just “exists” because he tries to be “pc.”
May I give my personal experience to date with Islam? I turned 13 and loved Cat Stevens. Then he converted to Islam and was no longer allowed to sing or play the guitar. When asked about Rushdie, Cat/Yusef opened the Koran and rather idiotically said, yup, it says right here the penalty for insulting the Prophet is death. In my youth I travelled the country on a spiritual journey, often talking with others about religion. I met a Muslim and said my faith was probably closest to Hinduism, a primary tenet being all faiths have value. “So many people, so many paths”. He shook his head back and forth and said “there’s something wrong with Hindus”. Later in 1982-3 I settled at a Hindu meditation center for a year in Oakland, just doors away from “Your Black Muslim Bakery”. Some of the YBMB members stood outside in long dark robes and angry faces. After 9/11 there was an interview of a Muslim in the street. What did he think. “Those who flew planes into the WTC were crazy”. So far so good. “There might have been Muslims in those buildings!”. Uh huh. Later that week at a memorial service in the National Cathedral a Muslim cleric spoke. Nothing about disavowing the ideology of the hijackers, his fellow Muslims, who screamed “Allah Akbar” as they did their deed. Where are the moderate Muslims speaking out against the extremists? So maybe I’m a little soured on Islam. Something positive about Islam? I’m still waiting. Can you tell I’m a little bitter?
#54
No, you don’t seem so bitter as you seem more aware of the reality of Islam and Muslim tenets compared to those who are afraid to challenge that “faith”.
Of course she doesn’t ‘get it’. She holds that wide eyed liberal belief in Coexistance… you know the one…
http://www.stampandshout.org/_gfx/_bst/_ex/coexist.gif
She obviously hasn’t actually READ the Qu’ran. She holds dear the liberal belief that with knowledge comes peace.
She was probably a flower child in the 60’s too. Alot of them never really grew up. I really don’t think that they mean any harm. They just have their ‘rose’ colored glasses don’t see the world for what it is.
I realize it’s wrong of me. But she’s 54 and British so letting her live in her little bubble of sunshine is ok with me. May she never really realize how close to death she actually came.
My MIL is like her. She’s this fabulous, outgoing, somewhat outrageous person, who has one of ‘those’ bumper stickers on her Volvo. She really means well. And she wouldn’t hurt anyone on purpose. Kind of like my 10 yo adhd daughter… totally oblivious but in a happy way.
PBoilermaker, he cherishs the freedom to make an ass of himself in the safety of this country provided by you and other veterans. He even gets to insinuate that you and the other veterans here are cowards – from the safety of his keyboard. He also knows, that unlike places like the Sudan, none of you are coming looking for him with swords.
Mohammand was merely a man and those who think he is divine are blinded by the devil. Jesus Christ said over and over that only a Divine being can forgive sin and since He forgives all sin He is God (Son of God) part of the Triune God. Muslims must think again on their eternal destiny.
Oh, Yeah, Vicki Stupe, Grow a brain
You know, I was thinking that maybe she was just being an apologist, and then I thought that maybe, just maybe, she has been threatened enough before she left about talking about it and to bevery, very careful about what she ever says about this incident and about Islam in public ever again. Look what happened to her with a teddy bear. I am sure she is just terrified to tell the press how she really feels, especially with the Religion of Killers gunning for her and her picture plastered on every corner in Londonistan. The Religion of Death has served it’s purpose is right. they have silenced yet another person who is capable of speaking the truth of how brutal these people are and what the minority wanted to do to her when they took to the streets with their swords and other weapons.
time to go and feed my scum sucking fish Mohammed and go to bed. Night all.
Gilliam may not joke anymore, but this kid in the video would definitely get beheaded if the ragers get their way. The Red, White & Blue kid calls out Mohammed for the pedophile he is.
For perspectve, Gilliam might consider that Mohammed considered the sweet widdle girls in her Sudanese class ripe for sex.
Obsenity alert:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kD1ZofbqGNY
(watch it quick before YouTube caves to CAIR)
I just installed a new mohammed in our house because the old one didn’t flush right.
I think we out to flood Aqsa Parvez’ services with Mohammed Teddy Bears. Well, maybe that would be disrespectful to her so scratch that and send them to her father’s jail cell.
To PBoilermaker: islam IS a JOKE