I TOTALLY agree with everything you said. I can't understand how people find this offensive enough to justify being punishable by death. If the kids agreed to call the bear Jesus, I wouldn't be offended at all. Maybe it wasn't the best thing to let the kids call the bear Mohammed, being in an Islamic country, but it doesn't seem to me like the naming was malicious. My understanding is that the kids named the bear, not the teacher, right?
They were talking about it on Fox News and there was a clip of a man saying (translated) if he saw the teacher he would behead her himself.
Really, where are the moderate Muslims condemning the extremists? Or does the Islamic religion actually support this kind of punishment for naming a bear after Mohammed? (I don't know, I've never read the Koran).
Every time I hear about this story I just shake my head. I really hope she gets pardoned.
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Date: 2007-12-01 10:23 pm (UTC)They were talking about it on Fox News and there was a clip of a man saying (translated) if he saw the teacher he would behead her himself.
Really, where are the moderate Muslims condemning the extremists? Or does the Islamic religion actually support this kind of punishment for naming a bear after Mohammed? (I don't know, I've never read the Koran).
Every time I hear about this story I just shake my head. I really hope she gets pardoned.