Gillian Gibbons And The UN Moratorium On Teddy Bear Naming
LOTS more news of Gillian Gibbons, victim of Sudan’s Teddy Bear Taliban.
In the Sun, one Mohammed, aged 7, says the class teddy was not named after the prophet of Islam but him. Says he: “The teacher asked me what I wanted to call the teddy. I said Mohammed after my name.”
“WE NAMED THAT TEDDY BEAR AFTER ME, NOT THE PROPHET,” echoes the Mirror’s headline. Says Dr Khalid al Mubarak: “I am certain this minute incident will be clarified quickly and the teacher cleared.”
We hope so. But not before Gavin Sherrard-Smith – yesterday he was in the Express - tells Britons and Old Etonians just how much it hurts to be whipped across the back by a bamboo stick wielded by a arge and possibly angry man.
The message is clear. We need a clear UN-approved naming convention for teddies. With the Giving Season almost upon us, it cannot come soon enough.
Approved Teddy names are: Big Ted, Little Ted, Ted, Teddy-Edward, Teddy Sheringham, Ted Kennedy Boutros Boutro and Rupert…
Names best avoided include: Ken, Anthea and any member of the victorious German football team of World Cup 74
Posted: 28th, November 2007 | In: Broadsheets, Gillian Gibbons, War On Terror Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 30th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
The Sudanese protesters and cleric Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al Karouri are simply an insult to their own religion. They have caused more hatred of Muslims than a billion teddy bears could have ever, if one ever could have in the first place. Don’t these people have any measurable intelligence. By their own laws, they should be executed for cause grievous shame to Islam and to the Prophet Mohammad. They’re ridiculous buffoons who are too stupid to live. They are a waste of the natural resources that sustain their existence.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Don’t think the UK Govt think it is serious enough for the PM to speak out and condemn this sort of this. Then again, look back on various incidents in the East, and you do wonder why people go and work there. Although, the rules are very well set out….but one cannot afford to slip on little bit, or else they are onto you. There have been murders, falling off balconies, and the rest of it.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:26 am
Do people in he west not realize how serious this is? You see she has been charged …you hope she is released? There is no deporting… they will put her to death for speaking out. Over a teddy bear..does no one see what is fundamentally wrong with that?????? Sorry but maybe I am just a dreaming Canandian but holy crap people stand up! Just imagine your childs kindergarten teacher being flogged… can you live with that?
November 28th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
http://www.freegillian.com
November 28th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
3 coolandcalm
Is it possible this will happen! Why hasn’t the UK Govt done “something” post haste!
November 28th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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November 28th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I see from the news that she has now been charged so that does make it more serious…..
Hopefully they’ll fine and deport her.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Mohammed, Mooooohammed the bear - everyone knows his name…
November 28th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I did notice in Egypt recently that nearly every worker in the hotel had a name badge that said Mohammed. (even the one who cleverly palmed a phoney $100 bill off on my husband!!)
And, didn’t the name creep into the top 100 baby names recently in the UK?