During my schooldays there were a couple of occasions when, to get out of a particularly dismal afternoon of lessons, we'd set the fire alarm off. You could get a way with it a couple of times a term, and it relied on no holier-than-thou swot snitching on you. It was well worth the risk to avoid double French.
So I have a certain admiration for little Muhammad sitting in a Sudanese classroom, bored to tears by some fat white woman leading a "ah, ber, ker, der..." chant for days on end. I'm sure he looked round for a fire alarm, but in the end settled for something far more subtle.
"Miss, I think that we should name the bear 'Muhammad'". A knowing glance round to all his classmates, and all that was required was to decide who was going to run home and spill the beans to Mum. No school until 2008, and a maybe even a chance to go to a lashing rather than the usual boring panto.
BBC News item:
A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam's Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Colleagues of Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, said she made an "innocent mistake" by letting the six and seven-year-olds choose the name.
Ms Gibbons was arrested after several parents made complaints.
The BBC has learned the charge could lead to six months in jail, 40 lashes or a fine.
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Good one, welcome to the blogosphere, assuming this is your first blog.
Thanks for the comment.
An interesting point is made by the mighty Shit Sandwich, which can be found at www.shitsandwich.co.uk. (sorry, don't know how to do the clever HTML linky stuff). But I quote:
"The western world has sat around for years now doing essentially nothing whilst the loony Sudanese government has gone on a genocidal rampage in Darfur. To be fair, this has been extensively reported by the BBC and the broadsheets, but most tabloid readers would be unlikely to be able tell you which continent Darfur’s in, let alone know what’s going on there. But all of a sudden, Sudan dares to enforce its own laws on blasphemy, and the regime is front page news (apart from the McCann story, obviously)."
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GOD IS GREAT! GOD IS GREAT!
This infidel should be shot by firing squad, smearing the name of the prophet.
GOD IS GREAT! GOD IS GREAT!
Adbul McShite, Leicester
Behead the Infidel and cackle at the stump!
Death to anything after the 8th century!
Set fire to the enemy's flag! Jump up and down on it, thus extinguishing it! Relight flag! Repeat as necessary!
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