Muhammted

Originally Posted by hovis

shes been found

guilty

15 days in prison, better than what could've been I guess but tis still ridiculous she was even found guilty in the first place disgusting.

Apparently the locals are today out on the streets protesting that the school teacher be shot!

Am I alone in thinking that her nievety in this case is beyond belief? Her lack of empathy with local culture and beliefs?

[Biker Biggles]

Perhaps we should take a leaf out of their book and get a few thousand to demonstrate outside the Sudan embassy in London?Burn a few Sudanese flags and wreck a few embassy cars.That should show em.

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

Apparently the locals are today out on the streets protesting that the school teacher be shot!

Am I alone in thinking that her nievety in this case is beyond belief? Her lack of empathy with local culture and beliefs?

Yes I think it is safe to say you are alone in that. She didn't even decide on the name, it was the kids! There is sympathy and respect for someone else's culture and then there is just downright crazy extremism. I don't see anyone that could have predicted it would go down like this. Apparently it wasn't even parents that complained, it was a fellow teacher who bore a grudge against her.

Originally Posted by Warthog

Yes I think it is safe to say you are alone in that. She didn't even decide on the name, it was the kids! There is sympathy and respect for someone else's culture and then there is just downright crazy extremism. I don't see anyone that could have predicted it would go down like this. Apparently it wasn't even parents that complained, it was a fellow teacher who bore a grudge against her.

Odd the reports that I read stated yes the kids chose the name,(apparently it was an exercise in democratic voting) but she attached that name to the Teddy bear. A big no-no. Then the kids complained to their parents.

I have not seen the version that you mention.

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

Am I alone in thinking that her nievety in this case is beyond belief? Her lack of empathy with local culture and beliefs?

no, your not....... she should have been a bit more clued up

Originally Posted by Warthog

Yes I think it is safe to say you are alone in that. .

My guess is that she's a covert MI6 officer, and that the Sudanese claim that this is a western plot to bring down Islam is true.

Sophie has lots of teddies. I like the name Mohammed so I'm going to christen one of them with that name and see if our neighbours throw bricks through my windows.

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

Odd the reports that I read stated yes the kids chose the name,(apparently it was an exercise in democratic voting) but she attached that name to the Teddy bear. A big no-no. Then the kids complained to their parents.

I have not seen the version that you mention.

It was on radio 4 yesterday, a reporter who was at the trial. I will try to find some internet evidence.

Here we go: "
However, colleagues of Ms Gibbons told The Times that no such complaints had been received by any of the children’s parents. They pointed to a disgruntled fellow teacher as the possible source of the complaint. The woman, understood to be a member of a well-known, conservative family, is believed to have a grudge against Unity High School, set up 100 years ago by a Christian bishop.
Bishop Ezikiel Kondo, chairman of the school council, said: “It’s a kind of blackmail.”
One Sudanese woman whose seven-year-old son had hosted the bear for a weekend, said: “I didn’t complain and neither did any other of the other parents. Anyway she didn’t name the bear — it was the class. Really we think she is a good teacher.” "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2951262.ece

I think from that she is totally innocent. It's disgusting that people are out on the streets demanding that she be shot!

Originally Posted by hovis

no, your not....... she should have been a bit more clued up

Yep, a little bit presumptious of me, i apologise.

Crazy what religions have the power to make people become.

Matt