I shake inside for people traveling and living abroad all over the world when I see something like this. It is horrifying to think of how vulnerable we all are when living among a foreign culture. It reminds me of the movie Brokedown Palace (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120620/). My heart goes out to Miss Gibbons.

Hmm...her daughter doesn't seem too 'distraught' to primp and pose for the  Daily Mail camera.  She looks pretty content, if you ask me

Patrick, that's because it's her MySpace photo. If you click through to her profile she's called "jessica sparkles" or something like that. Obviously she didn't set up her online profile to reflect mourning or concern - though it does pose an interesting question.  Should she take down her sassy photo and put up one of herself looking burdened and concerned? I'm not making fun, I mean it.

Checking my scorecard here......<sarcasm>yeah if you change your myspace page for sudan I'm afraid the terrorist wins....not sure which one though.</sarcasm>

Seriously though, I don't think in that situation the theme of your myspace should be in your list of priorities.  

Oh lighten up Patrick.  That's a typical MySpace profile picture.  At least she's clothed.  I think more of the hubris lies with the Daily Mail for grabbing the picture off her page and labeling it with the caption of "distraught" when the image was obviously a poor match for the caption.

Just a thought--if some of the hardliners want to execute the teacher for naming the bear, shouldn't they also execute the children who voted for that name in the first place?

And maybe the parent, too, since they clearly did not educate theire children well enough?

It's still ok to name yourself (or more realistically, your children) "Mohammed", right?  Or should those people be executed also?  Could be a problem that resolves itself...

lol Will. Go easy on the guy. As far as the story, I had no idea a teddy bear is such a religious symbol in Islam. What I wonder is if middle eastern muslims are ever happy in life with these kind of strange laws. Execution for naming a teddy bear? Man, I can't even laugh about that it is so ridiculous.

Its a sad,sad world we live in. I see this escalating into something even more then it already has. The people of Sudan chanting"execute the teacher, kill her by fireing squad." All because she allowed her students to name a teddybear Mohamed. I think this is making islam look even worse then they already do. This was obviously a huge misunderstanding that has gotten blown way out of proportion. These type of problems have happened throughout the days and writtings of the bible. Usually nothing good ever comes of them. My heart goes out to her and her family. No matter what, those that do her wrong WILL get there's in the end, no doubt about it. These things always work themselves out in the end. Karma

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