Religions > Atheism > Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear {Rampant Superstitious Idiocy Strikes Again}
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Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear {Rampant Superstitious Idiocy Strikes Again} |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21973378/?GT1=10547
Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear
Briton allowed her class of 7-year-olds to choose teddy bear's name
updated 8:15 a.m. ET Nov. 26, 2007
KHARTOUM, Sudan - {Reuters} A British primary school teacher has been
arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet by letting her
class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad, her school said on
Monday.
Colleagues of Gillian Gibbons told Reuters they feared for her safety
after receiving reports that young men had already started gathering
outside the Khartoum police station where the Liverpool woman was
being held.
Teachers at Unity High School in central Khartoum said Gibbons, 54,
made an innocent mistake and simply let her pupils choose their
favorite name for the toy as part of a school project.
Police arrested Gibbons on Sunday at her home inside the school
premises, said Unity director Robert Boulos, after a number of parents
made a complaint to Sudan's Ministry of Education.
Boulos said she had since been charged with "blasphemy," an offense he
said was punishable with up to three months in prison and a fine.
A spokesman from the British Embassy in Khartoum said it was still
unclear whether Gibbons had been formerly charged. "We are following
it up with the authorities and trying to meet her in person," he said.
Boulos said he had decided to close down the school until January for
fear of reprisals in Sudan's predominantly Muslim capital. "This is a
very sensitive issue."
"We are very worried about her safety," he added. "This was a
completely innocent mistake. Miss Gibbons would have never wanted to
insult Islam."
Class voted on toy name
Boulos said Gibbons was following a British National Curriculum course
designed to teach young pupils about animals and their habitats. This
year's animal was the bear.
Gibbons, who joined Unity in August, asked a girl to bring in her
teddy bear to help the second grade class focus, said Boulos.
The teacher then asked the class to name the toy. "They came up with
eight names including Abdullah, Hassan and Mohammed. Then she
explained what it meant to vote and asked them to choose the name."
Twenty out of the 23 children chose Muhammad.
Each child was allowed to take the bear home at weekends and asked to
write a diary about what they did with the toy. Each entry was
collected in a book with a picture of the bear on the cover, next to
the message "My name is Muhammad," said Boulos.
The bear itself was not marked or labeled with the name in any way, he
added, saying Sudanese police had now seized the book and had asked to
interview the 7-year-old girl.
Boulos said the first he knew about the course was last week when he
got a phone call from the Ministry of Education, saying a number of
Muslim parents had made formal complaints.
One Muslim teacher at Unity, who also has a child in Gibbons' class,
said she had not found the project offensive.
"I had no problem with it at all," the teacher said. "I know Gillian
and she would never have meant it as an insult. I was just impressed
that she got them to vote."
The country's state-controlled Sudanese Media Centre reported late
Sunday that Gibbons had been arrested for "insulting the Prophet
Muhammad." It said charges were being prepared "under article 125 of
the criminal law" which covers insults against faith and religion.
No one was immediately available for comment from Sudan's ministries
of Education or Justice.
Unity, an independent school founded in 1902, is governed by a board
representing major Christian denominations in Sudan, but teaches both
Christians and Muslims aged 4 to 18.
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| User: "Darwin123" |
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| Title: Re: Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear {Rampant SuperstitiousIdiocy Strikes Again} |
27 Nov 2007 06:38:55 PM |
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On Nov 26, 10:15 pm, stoney <sto...@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21973378/?GT1=10547
Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear
Briton allowed her class of 7-year-olds to choose teddy bear's name
updated 8:15 a.m. ET Nov. 26, 2007
KHARTOUM, Sudan - {Reuters} A British primary school teacher has been
arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet by letting her
class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad, her school said on
Monday.
What is really funny about your story is that the name Mohammed is
the most common individual name (as opposed to family name) in the
modern world. The children weren't necessarily even thinking about the
prophet. They may all have close relatives named Mohammed. If she was
blaspheming, then logically every parent who named their child Mohamed
was blaspheming. The teddy wasn't even being worshiped, or anything
that could be considered idolatry.
Of course, calling the bear "Teddy" could be considered a
reference to Saint Theodore. Oops, now I did it...
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear {Rampant Superstitious Idiocy Strikes Again} |
08 Dec 2007 11:31:47 AM |
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:38:55 -0800 (PST), Darwin123
<drosen0000@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Nov 26, 10:15 pm, stoney <sto...@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21973378/?GT1=10547
Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear
Briton allowed her class of 7-year-olds to choose teddy bear's name
updated 8:15 a.m. ET Nov. 26, 2007
KHARTOUM, Sudan - {Reuters} A British primary school teacher has been
arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet by letting her
class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad, her school said on
Monday.
What is really funny about your story is that the name Mohammed is
the most common individual name (as opposed to family name) in the
modern world. The children weren't necessarily even thinking about the
prophet. They may all have close relatives named Mohammed. If she was
blaspheming, then logically every parent who named their child Mohamed
was blaspheming. The teddy wasn't even being worshiped, or anything
that could be considered idolatry.
Logic and reason are absent when it comes to rabid superstitions.
Of course, calling the bear "Teddy" could be considered a
reference to Saint Theodore. Oops, now I did it...
Oh, yes. Kennedy..... :D
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| User: "kangarooistan" |
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| Title: Re: Sudan arrests teacher over 'Mohammed' bear {Rampant SuperstitiousIdiocy Strikes Again} CIA propaganda strikes AGAIN |
29 Nov 2007 10:24:24 AM |
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Pity sheeple did not do a check on the source
a known CIA under cover agent operating in Africa , working to create
war for USA and Israel
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
A "Blasphemous" Teddy Bear in Sudan
story breaks by dave ,
ha ha ha ha
the news sheeple swallowed it hook line and sinker
kanga
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On Sunday, officials in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum arrested a 54
year old British schoolteacher named Gillian Gibbons on charges of
blasphemy. Her crime: allowing her class of six and seven year old
pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed. Rob Crilly of Time lays out the
Kafkaesque yet terrifying circumstances Ms. Gibbons and her colleagues
find themselves in:
Now Gillian Gibbons, 54, is spending her second night in a Sudanese
prison, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet. She faces a public
lashing or up to six months in prison if found guilty on charges of
blasphemy. And Unity High School -- one of a number of exclusive
British-run schools in the Sudanese capital -- has been closed as
staff
fear reprisals from Islamic extremists. Robert Boulos, the school's
director, said the incident had been blown out of all proportion, but
added that the school would remain closed until January to let ill
feelings blow over.
"This was a completely innocent mistake," he said in an office
decorated with sepia photographs dating back to the school's colonial
heyday. "Miss Gibbons would have never wanted to insult Islam."
Police raided the school, where Gibbons also lives, on Sunday.
"We tried to reason with them but we felt they were coming under
strong pressure from Islamic courts," said Boulus. "There were men
with big beards asking where she was and saying they wanted to kill
her."
(Emphasis added-DD)
Wanting to murder a 54 year old teacher because of what her students
decided to name a stuffed animal. Nothing I write can make the
barbarism of radical Islamists any clearer.
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Black propaganda is false material where the source is disguised. It
is propaganda that purports to be from a source on one side of a
conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used
to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the enemy.
It contrasts with grey propaganda, the source of which is not
identified, and white propaganda, in which the real source is
declared. The term is also sometimes used as a synonym for
particularly malicious wartime propaganda or falsification of
information that is captured by an enemy.
Black propaganda may also be used on one's own side, generated by
altering genuine enemy propaganda in such a way as to distort its
message. This is a particularly powerful tool if the target audience
has a poor understanding of the language of the enemy, and is often
used to insult the intended recipients, leading to a rallying effect.
Contents
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[edit] Black propaganda in World War II
[edit] British
In Britain, the Political Warfare Executive operated a number of black
propaganda radio stations. Gustav Siegfried Eins (GS1) was one of the
first such stations -- purporting to be a clandestine German station.
The speaker, 'Der Chef' purported to be a Nazi extremist, accusing
Hitler and his henchmen of going soft. The station focused on alleged
corruption and sexual improprieties of Nazi Party members.
Another example was the British radio station Soldatensender Calais,
which purported to be a radio station for the German military. Under
the direction of Sefton Delmer, a British journalist who spoke perfect
Berliner German, Soldatensender Calais and its associated shortwave
station, Kurzwellesender Atlantik, broadcast music, up-to-date sports
scores, speeches of Adolf Hitler for "cover", and subtle propaganda.
David Hare's play Licking Hitler provides a fictionalised account
based on the British black propaganda efforts in World War II.
[edit] German
German black propaganda usually took advantage of European racism and
anti-Communism. For example, on the night of April 27, 1944 German
aircraft under cover of darkness (and possibly carrying fake Royal Air
Force markings) dropped propaganda leaflets on occupied Denmark. These
leaflets used the title of Frihedsposten, a genuine Danish underground
newspaper, and claimed that the "hour of liberation" was approaching.
They instructed Danes to accept "occupation by Russian or specially
trained American Negro soldiers" until the first disorders resulting
from military operations is over.
The German B=FCro Concordia organisation operated several black
propaganda radio stations (many of which pretended to broadcast
illegally from within the countries they targeted). [1]
[edit] American
The Tanaka Memorial, a document describing a Japanese plan for world
conquest, beginning with the conquest of China, is now believed by
most historians to be an American forgery. The Tanaka Memorial was
heavily used in American World War II propaganda as a justification
for a protracted war against Japan.
[edit] Japanese
The following message was distributed in black propaganda leaflets
dropped by the Japanese over the Philippines in World War II. It was
designed to turn Filipinos against the United States:
Guard Against Venereal Diseases
Lately there has been a great increase in the number of venereal
diseases among our officers and men owing to prolific contacts with
Filipino women of dubious character.
Due to hard times and stricken conditions brought about by the
Japanese occupation of the islands, Filipino women were willing to
offer themselves for a small amount of foodstuffs. It is advisable in
such cases to take full protective measures by use of condoms,
protective medicines, etc.; better still to hold intercourse only with
wives, virgins, or women of respective character.
Furthermore, in view of the increase in pro-American leanings,
many Filipino women are more than willing to offer themselves to
American soldiers, and due to the fact that Filipinos have no
knowledge of hygiene, disease carriers are rampant and due care must
be taken.
US Army
[edit] Black propaganda in domestic politics
[edit] Racist black propaganda
* The Protocols of the Elders of Zion claimed to be the secret
protocols of a vast Jewish conspiracy, and was often used as
"evidence" by conspiracy theorists and anti-Semitic groups. It is now
believed to be a forgery produced by the Okhrana, the Tsarist Russian
secret police.
* Another example of anti-Semitic black propaganda was Eustace
Mullins's book A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, which
purported to be proof of a Jewish/Communist plot against White
Americans.
* In Dreux, France in 1982 the National Front distributed
anonymous fake letters, supposedly from an Algerian living in France
to a brother living in Algeria. These fake letters, which described
immigration as a method of conquering France without war, were
instrumental in the National Front victory in the 1983 local council
elections in Dreux.
* In the run-up to the 2007 federal election in Australia, flyers
were circulated around Sydney under the name of a fake organisation
called the Islamic Australia Federation. The flyers thanked the
Australian Labor Party for supporting terrorism, Islamic
fundamentalists, and the Bali bombing suspects. A group of Sydney-
based Liberal Party members were implicated in the incident. [2] [3]
[4]
[edit] British media
* In November 1995 a Sunday Telegraph newspaper article alleged
Libya's Saif Qaddafi (Colonel Gaddafi's son) was connected to a
currency counterfeiting plan. The article was written by Con Coughlin,
the paper's chief foreign correspondent and it was falsely attributed
to a "British banking official". In fact, it had been given to him by
officers of MI6, who, it transpired, had been supplying Coughlin with
material for years[1].
* The Zinoviev letter was a fake letter published in the right-
wing British newspaper, the Daily Mail. It claimed to be a letter from
the Comintern president Grigori Zinoviev to the Communist Party of
Great Britain. It called on Communists to mobilise "sympathetic
forces" in the Labour Party and talked of creating dissent in the
armed forces. The Zinoviev letter was instrumental in the Conservative
victory in the 1924 general election.
[edit] United States media
* During the 1972 U.S. presidential election, Donald H. Segretti,
a political operative for President Richard Nixon's reelection
campaign, released a faked letter, on Senator Edmund Muskie's
letterhead, falsely alleging that Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson,
against whom Muskie was running for the Democratic Party's nomination,
had had an illegitimate child with a seventeen-year-old. Muskie, who
had been considered the frontrunner, lost the nomination to George
McGovern, and Nixon was reelected.
The letter was part of a campaign of so-called "dirty tricks",
directed by Segretti, and uncovered as part of the Watergate Scandal.
Segretti, went to prison in 1974, after pleading guilty to three
misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal campaign literature.
[edit] Other black propaganda examples
* The Dossiers Secrets is a collection of forged documents
purporting dating back to the time of Christ, which were created and
compiled by Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Cherisey. Originally
intended to authenticate Plantard's claims of his Merovingian
heredity, they were subsequently used in the book Holy Blood Holy
Grail as authentic sources of history, and as therefore demonstrating
a plot by the Roman Catholic Church to hide the alleged fact that
Jesus fathered children with Mary Magdalene.
[edit]
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| User: "Cary Kittrell" |
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29 Nov 2007 02:11:16 PM |
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In article <d144b84c-4be0-4983-be11-e32ec6052dc2@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> kangarooistan <grandpa@kangarooistan.com.au> writes:
Pity sheeple did not do a check on the source
a known CIA under cover agent operating in Africa , working to create
war for USA and Israel
Ah. Thank you for telling us.
By the way, who is this "known undercover agent", so that we
may be more alert in the future?
-- cary
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| User: "Darwin123" |
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29 Nov 2007 02:02:26 PM |
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On Nov 29, 11:24 am, kangarooistan <gran...@kangarooistan.com.au>
wrote:
Pity sheeple did not do a check on the source
a known CIA under cover agent operating in Africa , working to create
war for USA and Israel
A "known" "undercover" agent? Nonsequiters as "proof" of CIA
involvement?
<LOL><LOL><LOL><LOL>
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