Fluffy iconoclast

Article on the BBC News site about the story of the British teacher in prison in Sudan for allowing the children in her class to name a teddybear mohammad. Of course, the BBC are once again falling over themselves to understand the muslim point of view. After all, the multitudes of muslims living in the West fully accept Western norms and values, don't they?

In the article a few people are quoted. 'But Adel Darwish, the political editor of The Middle East magazine, says that Muslim children - "like children everywhere" - give their pets the names of characters they liked, be it a religious figure, sports hero or pop singer.'

The prophet as a pop singer? Infidel decadent noise? Surely not? Perhaps Rock 'n Sharia or Stoning and Roll?

'But the majority of Sudanese people won't want to see Ms Gibbons in trouble for the naming of the teddy bear.
"People are very forgiving of foreigners, particularly Europeans. Nobody would think she was trying to offend them - they would just think she was ignorant.'

Right. Allowing a group of children to name their teddybear is ignorant. Getting in to a state about a school teacher condoning this is not ignorant. Slinging her in jail isn't ignorant. A country where the teacher possibly faces forty lashes for this perceived blasphemy is not ignorant. Right..