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THE CABAL

The World's Most Evil Teddy Bear

Michael Weiss

A British schoolteacher working in Sudan polled her students for a name for a class teddy bear. They came up with Muhammed, and she was arrested for insulting the prophet:

If found guilty, the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, who taught at one of Sudan’s most exclusive private schools, could be sentenced to 6 months in jail and 40 lashes.

The bear? To be hanged by the neck until dead. But not for being called Muhammed. For being Zoroastrian.



Michael Weiss

Michael is an editor of Nextbook and a contributing editor of Jewcy. His work has appeared in Slate, Gawker, New York, Democratiya, Reason, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, City Journal and Standpoint.

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Stefan Beck


The saddest irony of this story is that it was probably a Vermont Teddy Bear donated by some well-meaning idiot in a “Save Darfur” t-shirt.