Reply #4: There was the British teacher put in a Sudanese jail for calling the class teddy Muhammad [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

which was after one of the boys in the class:

The mother-of-two was sentenced to 15 days in jail for insulting Islam after letting her six- and seven-year-old pupils give a class teddy bear the name of the Islamic prophet.
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She was released yesterday after a diplomatic mission by the British Muslim peers Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi secured a pardon from the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir.
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On Friday thousands of protesters, many carrying knives and sticks, took to the streets of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, complaining that Gibbons's sentence was too lenient. Chanting "Shame, shame on the UK", they called for Gibbons's execution, saying "No tolerance, execution" and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/dec/04/schoolsworldwide.sudan

She was arrested on Sunday in Khartoum after allowing her class of primary school pupils to name the teddy bear in September.

Muhammad is a popular name in mainly Muslim Sudan, and a boy in Mrs Gibbons class has said he suggested to the class the teddy bear be named after himself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7118245.stm