Marathon Pundit: Sudanese mobs calls for execution of "teddy bear" teacher

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, show your shoe
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, that will do!

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, go upstairs-
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say your prayers-
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn out the lights-
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say good-night!
(An old nursery rhyme)

Who would think cute teddy bears would cause so much anger? As most people by now know, Liverpool school teacher Gillian Gibbons, who left comfortable England for impoverished Sudan to teach kids there, let her students vote on the name of the class teddy bear. The children, most of them seven years old, voted for "Muhammad."

That got her a sentence of 15 days in a prison for inciting religious hatred. Again, were talking about a teddy bear. Gibbons could've received a six month stay in jail with a 40 lashes, so within the twisted standards of Islamofascist Sudan, she got a merciful sentence.

That has not escaped the notice of imams in Sudan. They riled up their flocks during Friday mosque services, as about 10,000 Sudanese rallied in Khartoum, chanting among other things, "No tolerance: Execution," and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad."

The National Organization of Women, a group of poltroons, has not come out on a firm stand on this atrocity.

Radio talk show host and former Los Angeles NOW Chapter president Tammy Bruce had this to say about NOW and Gibbons, "The supposed feminist establishment is refusing to take a position in this regard because they have no sensibility of what is right anymore. They're afraid of offending people. They are bound by political correctness."

And a note to my many Sudanese readers: It's just a teddy bear.

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