First, it was rumors of a Koran in a toilet. Then it was Kleenex boxes featuring pictures of Piglet, in a British government office. Then it was some Danish cartoons. Then it was the pope, quoting what an emperor said about Islam more than six hundred years ago. The resulting uproars caused some folks to mutter, “Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Moslems gotta riot.”
By now you probably know about the latest episode of what The People’s Cube calls OMS (Offended Muslim Syndrome). A British schoolteacher in Khartoum got thrown in jail for following a seven-year-old student’s suggestion that she name a teddy bear Mohammed. The Sudanese court also sentenced her to forty lashes, and mobs even called for her execution. Fortunately the government then realized that it had caused an international incident, and deported the teacher to Britain instead, so the story had a happy ending–for now.
If nothing else, this episode shows us that many Sudanese (the Arab Moslems, anyway) are unfit for the modern world, if they think it’s okay to name a terrorist Mohammed, but not an animal or a toy. If I ever get a pet pig, somebody remind me to name it Mo-ham. Over on Free Republic, somebody posted a picture of a Mo-teddy; perhaps the Sudanese and other Moslem fanatics would prefer that?
Elsewhere, I’ve called anyone who advocates or practices “honor killings” a barbarian. Well, if you think it doesn’t happen in Western countries, check out this story from Canada. In Missisauga, Ontario, Aqsa Parvez, a pretty 16-year-old Moslem girl, decided to stop wearing the hijab, or traditional headscarf, so she would fit in better with her classmates, and her father strangled her.
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Keep in mind that while few parents would kill their own children over something like this, there are people who want Shari’a, the Islamic law code that encourages such behavior, to replace the Constitution as the law of the land. Especially everyone’s favorite Islamic lobby, CAIR (the Council for American-Islamic Relations). Some of you may remember that in 1993, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”
Along that line, another blogger has introduced some teddy bears that should be acceptable to Moslem fundamentalists, the CAIR Bears! Move over, Beanie Babies, you had your time in the 1990s. Check out the whole set here.
