A Stitch in Haste

By now you have seen the reports concerning the arrest, by Sharia witch doctors, of a British schoolteacher in Sudan for committing the “religious crime” of insulting Mohammad:

Ms. Gibbons, 54, asked a 7-year-old girl to bring in a teddy bear and asked her classmates to pick a name for it.

“They came up with eight names including Abdullah, Hassan and Muhammad,” [the school's director] said.

When it came time to vote, 20 out of 23 children choose Muhammad, one of the most common names in the Muslim world.

The school

is known as one of the more expensive private schools in Khartoum. The students are the children of wealthy Sudanese families and foreign diplomats, a mix of mostly Muslims and Christians, and the lessons are in English.

So being wealthy, sitting next to Christians and being taught in English are not offenses to Islam, but naming a bear Muhammad is? Go figure.

In reality, the Sharia witch doctors just make this stuff up as they go along. When you’re a backward Muslim in a backward nation, sometimes you just need to blast the West for — well, for something. Just like you need to lash someone (preferably a woman) or hang someone (preferably a gay) — every so often. (Ms. Gibbon indeed faces lashing, as well as imprisonment and fines, if convicted.) After all, if you don’t brutalize an infidel every so often, then what’s the point of even being a theocracy adhering to the Religion of Peace?

And when religious criminals are in short supply, they must be manufactured — no different than any scarce commodity.

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The latest reports suggest that Sudan is caving to international pressure and likely to release the teacher. Let us hope so. And perhaps Westerners, even those with “humanitarian” motives, think twice about setting up shop in nests of brainless barbarism.

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