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A British teacher in Sudan will be spending 2 weeks in jail for naming a class teddy bear Mohammad. It is forbidden in Islam to make idol images of the Prophet Mohammad. Now what this British teacher, Gillian Gibbons did was to make her class students vote on what name to give the Teddy Bear, now as Mohammad is a very common name, the children voted on Mohammad, and that's what the bear was called. Now, once the children's parents heard bout this, they raised alarm, and Mrs. Gibbons was reported to the Ministry of Education, she was duly arrested.
The UK called the matter a 'misunderstanding', that Mrs. Gibbons was unaware of the implications, and did not name the bear Mohammad to delibrately insult the prophet or muslims. However for the Sudanese judiciary, 'rules is rules', and Mrs. Gibbons was fould guilty of insulting religion and will serve 15 days in jail and will then be deported. Other possible punishments included a public whipping, and a heavy fine.
It's not all over, no, now Sudanese people are pouring into the streets and calling for her death, calling for her to be executed. They say the sentence is to lenient, and Mrs. Gibbons should be killed by firing squad. This is a shame, very bad PR for Islam. As many Muslims are challenging the dominant view of Islam as a violent religion, and the media's obsession on negative stories involving Islam, now this story comes out. Thousands asking for the death of a British woman, I'm sorry, but the evidence of a cultural clash is clear as day. The worldwide Islam community has to do something to arrest this trend before it escalates into something else.