The Muslim Canadian Congress is organizing a teddy bear mail-in to protest Sudan’s imprisonment of Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher.
The 54-year-old woman was jailed on Thursday for 15 days for allowing her young students to name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of a class project.
Tarek Fatah, MCC’s founder, said he is asking the group’s 300 members to send “tiny teddy bears” (including the one pictured) to Faiza Hassan
Taha, Sudan’s ambassador in Ottawa, as a protest.
Yesterday, protests at the leniency of Ms. Gibbons’ sentence brought hostile crowds out on the streets of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, with angry men brandishing ceremonial swords and calling for her execution.
The irony of all this is that, if the teacher had said “Mohammad” was an inappropriate name & could not be used, this too would have been deemed an insult somehow, and she would be in the same situation.
In Islam, any excuse is good enough to behead an infidel.