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Originally Posted by echoes
This one is never far from my memory...in these uncertain times, it makes me wonder how close we as Americans, are to this terror. 
From 2007:
Mohamed teddy bear teacher, Gillian Gibbons, is spared lash but gets 15 days in jail.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2971369.ece
A British schoolteacher was behind bars in an overcrowded Sudanese prison last night after being convicted of inciting religious hatred for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohamed.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, escaped a sentence of 40 lashes after apologising to the court for any offence she had caused. But she began serving a 15-day sentence in a women’s prison where the regime is extremely harsh by Western standards. |
You can't be a rational human being reading that and not understand how blatatly asinine that whole entire culture is. There are individuals in it that transcend the idiocy, and I have met some of them, but on the whole...
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Last edited by abc_123; 02-10-2009 at 19:08.
Reason: Editied to correct incorrect inference that the culture is idiotic. Asinine is a more appropriate word. My apologies.
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