Posted on 29/11/07
Fury without cause
A soft toy is alleged to be the West's latest weapon in the clash of civilizations.British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons has been charged with insulting Islam and inciting religious hatred and could face flogging or jail in Sudan over a class project that went horribly awry. The teacher asked her seven-year-old students at a private school in Khartoum to name a teddy bear. Unsurprisingly at the largely Muslim school, Mohammed was the winning choice. Each student then took Mohammed home for a weekend and was asked to keep a diary of the toy's activities. It is hard to view the assignment as anything worse than an act of cultural naiveté on Ms. Gibbons's part.
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