Thursday, November 29, 2007

The most retarded thing ever (besides Paris Hilton's wanting to spawn)

A British teacher has been convicted of "religious hatred" in the Sudan because she apparently let her students name a teddy bear Mohammed. Yes, you heard me right. She goes to jail for 2 weeks because she allowed a toy to be named Mohammed, but get this --- any Tom, Dick or Harry Islamist-Dude can name HIMSELF after the prophet, but if a woman names a bear "Mo", well, throw her in jail, then deport her!

Geez. And you wonder why organized religion is waning in popularity and meaning...

I'll also have you note the Sudan is the same country where genocide has been happening for the past few years and yet, the powers that be there have time to have a trial and then throw a teacher in jail because of a teddy bear's name. Wow. Talk about your fucked up priorities!

7 comments:

Em said...

I say let Paris procreate...I mean hell, they let Nancy Grace have not one, but two kids that will soon be spewing prosecution-loving judgmental propaganda...why not have an over accessorized mini-Paris cooing "That's hot"?

tiny robot said...

Eh, I guess so. But part of me thinks Paris's uterus has been fried from all the tanning bed hours she's logged.

tiny robot said...

UPDATE: Now Sudanese crazy people, lots of them, are RIOTING in the streets, calling for the teacher's execution.

Wow. Just when you think the world can't get any more stupid, it does.

baby guanaco said...

I will now be naming all of my plush animals after religious figures.

"Zoroaster" is perfect for my flamingo beanie.

mlv said...

We talked about in this class today. (I taught the class about fundamentalism.)

And it's the most popular boy's name over there. Not Zoroaster.

Several of my students thought that a logical conclusion (relative to the situation) would be to punish the seven year-old kids. They voted for the name.

baby guanaco said...

But Zoroaster as such a nice ring to it. He can hang out with plush Siddhartha, Kali, Krishna, Hay-seuss, and Yahweh. We'll adopt teddy Muhammed, too, since others won't have him. Oh yeah, and we'll include Spaghedeity as well to round out the gang.

tiny robot said...

NOODLE LORD!