When in Rome...

Apparently there’s a been a big uproar about the Sudan’s government arrest of 54 year old British school teacher Gillian Gibson for allowing her class of 7 year olds to name the class teddy bear after the prophet Mohammed.
Gibson faced 40 lashes (with a whip I assume) and 6 days in jail, which when you consider that the people of Sudan crowded the streets screaming for he death over the outrage didn’t seem so bad.
However the British government was able to appeal to Sudan’s compassionate side and she was released with hide intact.
There was a consensus through out the west that this was a gross over reaction by the people and government of Sudan. After all there are a lot of people in the Moslem world named Mohammed. It appears to be a very common name there.
This is a stark contrast to the English speaking world where you don’t find too many Jesus’ floating around. Yet we don’t hesitate to make a mockery of him-“Battling Jesus Action Figures”-“Bobble Head Jesus Doll” – “Dashboard Jesus” and all of the seemingly blasphemous references made to him on “The Simpsons”-“The Family Guy” and “Southpark”.
The thing is the Moslem people take their religion seriously. They don’t have the luxury of being distracted from the day to day by watching a televised dance contest with “C” list celebrities or watching adults have nervous breakdowns because they can’t out wit elementary school kids.
So before we pass judgment on these people we feel who have over reacted keep in mind Ms Gibson who claimed to know and respect these people arrogantly allowed the naming of this teddy bear without any thought of the consequences.
Of course this does make me wonder how the people of Sudan would have reacted had they named the teddy bear Jesus or Buddha. For that matter how would Christians react
if their children came home and said we named our classes teddy bear “Mohammed or “teddy the Christ”?
Before we get all sanctimonious keep in mind we Americans have our own kind of jihad it’s called litigation. We’d sue the gold fillings out of a hobo’s mouth if our coffees not hot enough.
The real tragedy here is why in a classroom full of 7 year olds who haven’t done s@!#%
to anybody is there only one teddy bear?
I wish we in the western world would be a little more like the Islamic fundamentalists and deal with these knuckle heads running around calling themselves Elvis. There is only one King.
As for Costello and Grbac knoogies to the infidels AYE YE YE YE YE YE

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