In todays news the Islamic radical nutjobs are calling for the death of this teacher. Think radical Christians would never do this? Think again.

116298 by P. T. on 11/27 at 11:11 am: “...has a political feel to it, like some mullahs or politicians were looking for something to demagogue....”

Giving a teddy bear a bad name, uhh ......all to make Westerners look bad .....the perceived result is supposedly to make Islam look good in Sudan, an impossibility in itself!!! Ask any non-Muslim Sudanese.........

I think many here would agree that the disease which is most threatening to the survival of all human civilization is not HIV, Ebola, Avian Flu, or any other microbe. It is a psychological virus know as religion, or more broadly as superstition.  Islam is currently the most virulent strain of this virus, but it is not the only one that threatens human progress and survival. Rational people everywhere need to vigilant and proactive in challenging bad ideas and irrationality everywhere they see it.

The struggle of reason & science vs. religion & superstition will define the 21st century and likely decide the ultimate fate of humanity. If reason and science prevail in this century, humanity may triumph over poverty, disease and even biological mortality before this century is over. We may have the technology to produce unlimited energy without environmental costs as well as the ability to repair previous environmental damage at the nano-level, restoring the pristine environment of pre-industrial Earth.  We may even have the option as individuals to become more than human, better than human, enhancing our minds and our bodies with technology, in combination with virtually unlimited life-spans. Though this might sound like science fiction, these are the projections of many of the most brilliant scientists, technology gurus, and futurists of our time. But their optimism is tempered with a realization of the scale of destruction that religious extremism might unleash upon the humanity in this century, if we are not vigilant. If religion and superstition prevail, the majority of the human race may not survive this century at all, and those that do may be left to suffer in a new dark age.

I feel so much pity for the millions who, through no fault of their own, get born into families/cultures whose belief systems are based in religious fanaticism.

By the time these folk reach adulthood they’ve been so brain damaged by the monumental piles of religious bullshit laid on them by controlling con men they’ve forever lost any ability to think for themselves.

There is NO EVIDENCE that any supernatural “god” exists. This is FACT. This cannot be argued using any reason or logic. Those who believe there is a “god” do so on purely an LEARNED/EMOTIONAL basis.

If such lies are pounded into you from birth by everyone around you there’s not much chance you’re going to stand up one day and say… “Hey… I see no evidence to prove what you’re saying is true, and my brain leads me to choose to believe otherwise"… especially in such backward societies that would rather murder you than allow you to think for yourself like that.

I pity them all. Such a waste of a lifetime.

If I were Mrs. Gibbons, I’d tell them to shove the teddy bear where the sun doesn’t shine and leave them to rot in their cesspool of ignorance.

This is just the kind of ignorance and insanity that takes over when any religion takes control of a country and every aspect of peoples lives. Mob rule mentality, keep them ignorant and unable to use the brain they were born with. It’s easier to control or incite the uneducated and those unable to decide for themselves and manipulate them into doing unthinkable things against other humans, where as if these people were allowed to think for themselves,allowed to be educated, those misdeeds would never have happened.

Besides it was the children who decided on the name. Maybe they should all be lashed since it was their indiscretion, they named the bearin the first place.

This thing has a political feel to it, like some mullahs or politicians were looking for something to demagogue.

Do not blame the “TEACHER”, she is there to teach and remove the poverty of knowledge. If you are covering your eyes with both hands and shouting at top of your lungs, “ I cannot see”, do not blame the eyes.  Name Mohammed was there before Arab Mohammed was born. Now that is ignorance.

This just goes to show that even the people of Islam can be stupid idiots.  What a stretch to see this as an insult!  One would have to believe that any child that shares the prophet’s name is an idol. How stupid can you get?

If not stupid, the teacher is grossly ignorant.  Respect for local culture is seriously lacking in all corners of the world. I don’t think the teacher should be flogged but a tongue lashing is in order.  Perhaps she should be recalled to Britain.  She’s obviously ill-prepared to teach in other cultures.