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The World’s Most Evil Teddy Bear
By Michael Weiss / November 28, 2007
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.
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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.
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