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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 26 â The Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her 7-year-old pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials said today.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Two things.
- I didn't know that Kenya was in Sudan/that Sudanese police can arrest people there, nor did I know that islam was yet so rampant in Kenya.
- The children would be happier in Hinduism (or Shintoism for that matter):
You can name any children's teddy bear/pluche toy after our Gods, as everyone here probably will confirm from their own experience.
One can also draw our Gods and colour them in.
Our Gods also come in family form (one of their representations is as a family: hence you have Shiva, Parvati, with their kids Ganapathi and Murugan and Ayyappan, with aunt and uncle AdiLakshmi and MahaVishnu), so kids can name their pluche toys after them and play "family" or whatever. Lots of fun.
Those poor children. They're <i>trying</i> to warm to prophet muhammed (because they don't know him) and as usual, islam turns out to be unforgiving and unrelenting. Soft toys are haraam in themselves: they're representations of animals and animals are generally not halaal; and who knows, kids may like them better than jehovallah and that would be ultimate blasphemy! Ban them cuddly things! Baby may only hug the koran when sleeping. That's <i>if</i> they're even allowed to hug the koran.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 26 â The Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her 7-year-old pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials said today.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Two things.
- I didn't know that Kenya was in Sudan/that Sudanese police can arrest people there, nor did I know that islam was yet so rampant in Kenya.
- The children would be happier in Hinduism (or Shintoism for that matter):
You can name any children's teddy bear/pluche toy after our Gods, as everyone here probably will confirm from their own experience.
One can also draw our Gods and colour them in.
Our Gods also come in family form (one of their representations is as a family: hence you have Shiva, Parvati, with their kids Ganapathi and Murugan and Ayyappan, with aunt and uncle AdiLakshmi and MahaVishnu), so kids can name their pluche toys after them and play "family" or whatever. Lots of fun.
Those poor children. They're <i>trying</i> to warm to prophet muhammed (because they don't know him) and as usual, islam turns out to be unforgiving and unrelenting. Soft toys are haraam in themselves: they're representations of animals and animals are generally not halaal; and who knows, kids may like them better than jehovallah and that would be ultimate blasphemy! Ban them cuddly things! Baby may only hug the koran when sleeping. That's <i>if</i> they're even allowed to hug the koran.