I know (at least not personally) two people with such names and they are Muslim. Perhaps they should be executed as well for having names that "shame the prophet".
Here, if some person were to name themselves "Jesus Christ", not only can such a name be taken legally here, everyone else would assume the person is a fruitcake.
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"Gibbons was arrested Sunday after another staff member at the school complained that she had allowed her 7-year-old students to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Giving the name of the Muslim prophet to an animal or a toy could be considered insulting."
Okay, they want to kill the teacher, but her (presumably Muslim) were the ones who named it? Personally, I wouldn't know that it was an insult, and I'm not sure the teacher did either. It sounds like a serious overreaction, and there's probably other factors in this whole situation that they're not reporting.
BTW, I knew a guy in high school name Mohammed Mohammed. Also, many Spanish-speaking people have the name "Jesus".
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quote:Originally posted by Saltah'na: ..., everyone else would assume the person is a fruitcake.
I assume religious fanatics, of any ilk, are fruitcakes.
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What makes it all the more stupid is the fact that one news report I saw had Sudanese citizens stating they had no problem with what the teacher did, most not even caring. So what's the big deal?
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She has no tolerance for other people's views! KILL HER!
And so shalt the God of Hypocrisy be pleased. Here endeth the lesson.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: She has no tolerance for other people's views! KILL HER!
And so shalt the God of Hypocrisy be pleased. Here endeth the lesson.
isn't most religions based on Hypocrisy?
-Or-
All religion secretly worships Cyric of FR fame?
think she outta sell the bear on E-bay or, better, give the bear to a Online Porn site, and get some phat chick to shite on the bear. think that would rile up the Hypocritic Hornet's nest?
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What's been amusing have been reports in the tabloid press about the kid who actually owns the bear. The irony is the kid's name is Mohammed...
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KILL HIM!!! KILL HIM NOW!!!! BLASPHEMY!!!
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Daniel Butler
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Well, from the racism and Muslim supremacy usually exhibited by conservative Islamic groups and governments, they probably only feel it's an insult if a non-Muslim, especially a non-racially-Middle-Eastern, does it. So if it had been a Muslim teacher it would probably have been fine.
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Every time something like this happens, I just keep thinking back to the scene with the witch and the mob from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
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Daniel Butler
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Yes. One of the top 50 funniest lines ever: A polite "We have found a witch; may we burn her?"
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It's a stitch-up. If she'd actually said, on receipt of the vote results, "No, dears, we can't call the teddy Muhamad, it'd offend someone" then likely the very same parents who then raised the complaint about her showing comtempt for Islam by letting them call it that would be complaining about her discriminating against Islam by NOT letting them call the bear that!
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