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chaotic_nippleA 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 Mohammed, her school said on Monday.
This is hardly fair, it was the kids that did the blaspheming. :-P
This is hardly fair, it was the kids that did the blaspheming. :-P
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:35 am (UTC)Since I don't acknowledge the authority of Godwin's Law, as far as I'm concerned you said "Excellent use of GA-OOGAH!!! FROOPTY-DOOPTY!" ... and my point still stands.
And while Sudan is pretty goddamn hellish, don't over-evilize them; chattel slavery was hardly dead before they started being assholes (hey, what up Brazil, Libya, significatn stretches of East Europe...)
??? I get Libya, but since well have the Brazilians (or for that matter Eastern Europeans) started capturing people and selling them on the open market?
As for damning local religious politics; ven if one chooses to believe that 3/4ths of someones beliefs are stupid makes all of their beleifs stupid, that still doesn't mean that it's a good idea to rile people up in the midst of civil war/genocide.
??? Their commission of genocide means that their moral standing is lower and hence they need to be more careful about offending civilized countries, not that civilized countries need to be more careful about offending them. This is especially true given that their Armed Forces are a sick joke, and the country they are offending could take them over in about a month ...
... too bad Lady Thatcher seems to have taken Britain's balls with her when she left office.
And, most of the "Arab"/"Sudanese" conflict actually dates to the British colonialization--one of their major strategies for mantaining control was breeding conflict between peoples within a colony--it took particularly hard in Sudan, but the after-results are apparent in the politics of most of the former British colonies in Africa (possibly also elsewhere, but Africa is what I know). But, you know, thanks civilized values!
That is actually not true. The Sudanese rose under their insane Mahdi in the 1880's and 90's and fought to defend their practice of chattel slavery and persecution of non-Muslims. The British did the Sudan and the whole world a big favor when in 1898, at Omdurman, they gave tens of thousands of Muslim loonies a chance to remove themselves from the gene pool in suicidal charges against repeating rifles, machineguns and shell-firing artillery. Why should I conaider failure to utterly suck up to looney Muslims "breeding conflict" -- is the Muslim right to obedience from non-Muslims so all-embracing that not giving them total control over a colony is a clear provocation?
And when push comes to shove, we are left with the reality that they mean to severely punish a teacher for a reason which is, stripped to its bare essentials, sheer lunacy.
People with that attitude are too culturally immature to be allowed sovereignity. Britain would do the world a favor if she used it as an excuse to recolonize the place.
Too bad her balls are temporarily missing. But I have hope that someday, Britain will rise again.
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Date: 2007-11-28 07:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-28 08:01 am (UTC)That's a particularly funny statement, given that
1) I said nothing particularly bad about any "races," and
2) The Sudanese regime is supporting the instuitition of Negro slavery.
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Date: 2007-11-28 11:29 am (UTC)I might have a stange sense of humor.
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-28 11:31 am (UTC)Anyway, actual response coming later. I have to go do fajr now (because I'm evil) and then work (because I'm greedy).