Good point, coldandtired.

Check out this article. It turns out that the teddy bear was named Mohammad after one of the kids in the class. Hmmmm, if Sudan wants to be consistent, I guess they should lash the kid's parents (or, going on the Muslim-mysogynistic train, maybe just the mom) for giving the kid such a "blasphemous" name.

Yeah. And it's not like many in the western world label anything any muslim does as a muslim ("Islamofascist") plot against the western world and our freedoms.

http://neoengel.com/allahackbear.html

Doc_Gerbil: I am going to nickname my cock Muhammad, and there ain't a farking thing those crazy ass fundies can do about it!

/hate all fundies
//especially the xtian ones

The xtians are more irritating only because they're closer, imo. Most of xtian fundies don't riot. They're more insidious, sneaking around and getting laws passed. OK, I don't know which is worse.

lukelightning: What people are forgetting is that the bear was named by muslim children. The class had a contest to name it and Muhammad was the most popular name chosen.

Though I guess it's good that the focus is on the teacher, otherwise they'd be trying to lynch the children.

It's much easier to blame things on women.

pop


Silence!!

I kill you!

Dubya's_Coke_Dealer: SlothB77: SlothB77: congratulations useful idiot schoolteacher who thought if we could just talk to them and understand them, we can reason with them. you will be the first to meet the consequences of such naiveties.

Yeah, it's like talking to Christians, they don't listen to reason.

In before random unrelated Christian comment. Oh wait, too late. Hahahah.

Don't worry, I know you're just fitting in your Christian comment due to the lack of Christian articles like this. Prove the book of revelations right more, imo.

Doc_Gerbil:
I am going to nickname my cock Muhammad, and there ain't a farking thing those crazy ass fundies can do about it!
/hate all fundies
//especially the xtian ones

This gives me a wonderful idea for a sociological experiment. What if someone were to forward a Fark thead - such as this one - to a radical Islamofascist group who happened to have sssorted hacker types among their minions, with the helpful advice that there were haters of fundamentalist religion posting here? The eventual results might be quite interesting.

I'm the prophet Muhammed, so I'm really getting a blast out of these replies...

Only one way to solve this....

BRICK IN THE HANDBAG FOR EVERYONE!

blueviking: BRICK IN THE HANDBAG FOR EVERYONE!


Fair play to the queen; she killed the crazy dog

/E.I.

Geez, this is such a representative sampling of everything that is going on in the moslem world today. It certainly subsumes the presumption that you guys are ignorami or prejudiced.

//what can be done to get that stupid song out of my head
//from that top post?

bookman:

The eventual results might be quite interesting.

The Religion of Five oh oh strikes again?

So how many people are named Muhammad/Mohammad in the world again?

Why no uproar about that?

BTW, I'm seriously. I don't understand the difference. I would think a person naming themselves after Muhammad would be worse, putting themselves on the same level.

Firefly4F4: So how many people are named Muhammad/Mohammad in the world again?

Why no uproar about that?

BTW, I'm seriously. I don't understand the difference. I would think a person naming themselves after Muhammad would be worse, putting themselves on the same level.

Good question. But oh, I guess they just save the lashings for teh weemin, damn biatches, daring to name a teddy bear the same thing as the prophet. Oh and heaven forbid you go out of the house, because, getting gang raped is your own damn fault.

Answer for the week, Western conspiracy!

For what its worth, I'll be naming my next pet rat Muhammed.

That'll show'em!

If only they had used 'Muhamad' or 'Muhamed' nobody would have cared.

H_E_doublehockey sticks:I just wanted to say I named MY teddy bear "Islam can suck my balls"

Hold your calls, we have a winner.

Suicidal Writer:The Prophet Muhammad licks the ass of aids infected goats.

Honorable mention.

blueviking: Firefly4F4: So how many people are named Muhammad/Mohammad in the world again?

Why no uproar about that?

BTW, I'm seriously. I don't understand the difference. I would think a person naming themselves after Muhammad would be worse, putting themselves on the same level.

Good question. But oh, I guess they just save the lashings for teh weemin, damn biatches, daring to name a teddy bear the same thing as the prophet. Oh and heaven forbid you go out of the house, because, getting gang raped is your own damn fault.

Answer for the week, Western conspiracy!

I have a friend named Mohammed Islam. He has 3 brothers, all of their names are Mohammed Islam. George Foreman has nothing on them.

Somacandra: Submitter: Muslim Clerics in Sudan have labelled the Muhammad teddy bear naming incident as a) an innocent mistake b) miscommunication c) part of a Western plot against Islam

...AND thus demonstrating that they know as much about us about as much as we know about them.

/Diddly-Squat

I know all I need to know about them.

PFFFFFFFFFFFT Sudan?!?!?!!?

Couldnt we get a few deer hunters together and take that shiathole of a country over?

For such a male/macho religion they sure are a bunch of sensitive panty-waists

ROFL @ Suicidal Writer

Should have just named it "Allah Akbear"

Dubya's_Coke_Dealer wrote:

"Yeah, it's like talking to Christians, they don't listen to reason."

'Cept last time I checked, Christians weren't jailing and beating people for naming a teddy bear. Not recently, anyway.

The part of my being that knows that there are Muslims who are normal, hard working folks who just want to live, work, and play like other normal people is being eclipsed by the part of my being that just wants to drop the big one over there and call it a day.

I know that's wrong. I sincerely wish I didn't increasingly feel that way. But I do.

These whackjobs are their own worst enemy.

On behalf of Teddy Roosevelt, I am offended at the term "Teddy Bear"
It's a middle eastern conspiracy to smear the name of the greatest U.S. President, and the one true prophet of Cthulu.
mmmmmm..... sacrilicious

Pops

I named my pecker Muhammad, and now every time it sees a naked chick online, I have to beat it.

Well, I know what to name my pet pig now.

The bit TFA doesn't mention is that each of the kids was to take Mohammed the bear home for the weekend and write a diary about what they did with him. The teacher sent a letter to each of the parents to this effect. I'm wondering if she's as innocent as we're being lead to believe and that she wasn't, in fact, pulling their chains.

I'm not saying that the appropriate punishment for insulting their religion is imprisonment, nor that they're not antidiluvian savages. I'm just wondering if the teacher was teasing a little and got the reaction you get when you poke crazy people with sticks.

Blow me up Elmo?

andrethered1 -
"I named my pecker Muhammad, and now every time it sees a naked chick online, I have to beat it."

HAHAHA!!! Awesome!
FTW!

they should just give the poor teacher a couple of lashes for being ugly and send her back to jolly old england.

JDAT: Blow me up Elmo?

/and this

"Sudan's top clerics have called for the full measure of the law to be used against Mrs Gibbons and labelled her actions part of a Western plot against Islam."

Oh, then naming the maggots in the back dumpster Muhammad won't offend them worse. They already want us dead so I may as well go all the way.

Nothing surprises me about them anymore.

babalu87:
For such a male/macho religion they sure are a bunch of sensitive panty-waists

The macho crap is always a cover-up for a tiny-dicked panty-waist.

Think of W. sauntering around on the deck of an aircraft carrier with a codpiece.

I see there are many upstanding members of the human race on this thread.

RosettaStone: babalu87:
For such a male/macho religion they sure are a bunch of sensitive panty-waists

The macho crap is always a cover-up for a tiny-dicked panty-waist.

Think of W. sauntering around on the deck of an aircraft carrier with a codpiece.

What? You mean that wasn't him trying the Henry VIII look?

I know that thread's probably over by now, but did anyone commenting here actually read the article? It's mostly about how both Britain and Sudan want to smooth this over so as not to make a big diplomatic incident about it, with both countries seeming fairly certain that nothing major will come of this. The nutjob clerics get, like, 2 sentences about them.

Show some proportion, people!

greentea1985: Picture this scenario in the U.S. A teacher in a classroom in Texas decides to do a similar assignment. Her class includes several evangelical students and some hispanic students, and the class decides to name the bear after a classmate, Jesus. If this happened in the U.S. a couple of parenbts might be annoyed, but more would understand that it is a common name, so if you can't give the name to a stuffed teddy bear, why give it to your kid?

Umm, most evangelicals would love to have a teddy bear named Jesus.

Linky (new window)

^^ Especially in TX.

/had a buddy named Jesus
//and yes, he did joke about it quite often amd make dirty remarks about "obeying Christ"

The part of my being that knows that there are Muslims who are normal, hard working folks who just want to live, work, and play like other normal people is being eclipsed by the part of my being that just wants to drop the big one over there and call it a day.

Yeah, like maybe the entire class of children who named the bear and have, by and large, come to their teacher's defense in this matter? Why the Hell does this have to be made into such an "us and them" thing? Why is it so coonting easy to dehumanize an entire group of people that I see it done on a daily basic? What the coont is wrong with the world where it is easier to demonize than to even TRY to understand each other? Why is it now the easier idea to kill than to comprehend? What the Hell? WHAT THE HELL? WHAT THE coontING HELL

bookman:
This gives me a wonderful idea for a sociological experiment. What if someone were to forward a Fark thead - such as this one - to a radical Islamofascist group who happened to have sssorted hacker types among their minions, with the helpful advice that there were haters of fundamentalist religion posting here? The eventual results might be quite interesting.

I think it would be hard to tell those new guys from the typical trolls that run around here but that's just me.

PopeUrban: Why the Hell does this have to be made into such an "us and them" thing? Why is it so coonting easy to dehumanize an entire group of people that I see it done on a daily basic? What the coont is wrong with the world where it is easier to demonize than to even TRY to understand each other? Why is it now the easier idea to kill than to comprehend? What the Hell? WHAT THE HELL? WHAT THE coontING HELL

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