Sudan Sentences Teacher to 15 Days + Deportation

[almaty 19]

Maybe they are a symbol of Western/American decadence? Who knows what's up with teddy bears...

Actually, they are. The "Teddy Bear" is named for Theodore Roosevelt, the first great American Imperialist.

brother russ ..right on..although, the American indians would disagree and suggest it started with george washington

[mawilson 2,133]

Maybe they are a symbol of Western/American decadence? Who knows what's up with teddy bears...

Actually, they are. The "Teddy Bear" is named for Theodore Roosevelt, the first great American Imperialist.

And you think the dimwits in Sudan that charged her know that?

[Jenn! 918]

Still not funny.

You can dress it up in political correctness and quasi-humanist rhetoric all you like,

but some of us know the truth.

What truth is that?

To say that everyone from a certain part of the word has not evolved is more than just politically incorrect. You, sir, are a bigot.

[mawilson 2,133]

Still not funny.

You can dress it up in political correctness and quasi-humanist rhetoric all you like,

but some of us know the truth.

What truth is that?

To say that everyone from a certain part of the word has not evolved is more than just politically incorrect. You, sir, are a bigot.

Culturally evolved, Jenn, not physically -- I'm not saying they're one evolutionary step away from ** Neanderthalensis.

[mawilson 2,133]

Cultural evolution doesn't take millions of years, Jenn, it only takes hundreds (of years.)

Do you know how brutal and violent England was only 300 years ago?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Heck, why go back 300 years? Look at the Germans of WW2 and look at 'em today.

[polarbear 0]

OMG! Did anyone read the comments on that article?!? Wow, I've rarely read such blatant cultural and religous hatred... these comments are not really about the Sudanese govt. they are all about the religion in general... it made me sick to my stomach to read.. where's that barffy smily when you need it?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I just read the comments, thanks for pointing them out. Some of them are pretty funny.

[Jenn! 918]

Cultural evolution doesn't take millions of years, Jenn, it only takes hundreds (of years.)

Do you know how brutal and violent England was only 300 years ago?

So the entire Arab world is uncivilised, right?

It's so disturbing that you can say things like this nowadays and people don't bat an eye.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

So the entire Arab world is uncivilised, right?

It's so disturbing that you can say things like this nowadays and people don't bat an eye.

Let us not forget the extremely high murder rates throughout the United States. Some may say that's uncivilised. The entire world has a long way to go, not just the mid east.

[mawilson 2,133]

So the entire Arab world is uncivilised, right?

No, not the entire Arab world.

[Nancy2015 2]

I may find it outrageous, but I won't go as far as saying the laws/people/government of the country are not evolved. It's a very different culture and I don't understand it well enough to consider myself entitled to form an opinion about it.

[jundp 191]

Well, I will say it. I am not speaking out against the religion, but rather the country. A country whose GOVERNMENT is SPONSORING GENOCIDE.

Therefore, I don't really care that they find a teddy bear named Mohammed to be offensive. I think it's outrageous and until they decide to stop allowing the Janjaweed to commit such atrocities on the people of Darfur and stop financially aiding them, then I definitely won't try to care. Genocide is not "a cultural difference" it's murder and it's morally wrong. In any religion or culture.

ETA: to fix the mistakes my passion caused

Edited November 29, 2007 by jundp

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

OMG! Did anyone read the comments on that article?!? Wow, I've rarely read such blatant cultural and religous hatred... these comments are not really about the Sudanese govt. they are all about the religion in general... it made me sick to my stomach to read.. where's that barffy smily when you need it?

Do you have a tenth of that outrage for a woman being sent to prison for naming a teddy bear the most common name in the world?

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

In my International Laws class Sundan is all kinds of messed up. Just look at Darfur..Chad War..oh man they have major problems there. Much much more major.

Whoop look at the time....Time to get to my "Everything you need to know for Graduate School" lecture. I'm late. I'm late...yikes.