The BBC Radio was on when I heard the following: A British teacher in Sudan was jailed for "letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed".
The inference I can make out of this is that the pupils did the naming, not her. So, how on earth could she be held responsible for this? Better blame the parents who seemed to fail to teach their kids choose appropriate names for anything that needs a name. Why respect and sensitiveness is not instilled in those kids so as to avoid being caught up in such misunderstandings.
The BBC Radio airing the news did not say, when I was listening, whether those kids where muslims or christians, whether the school is in a muslim or a christian neighborhood. I hope we are not in the middle of a new religious conflict. Please let us just bury the hatchet. There may be no ill-will behing the naming, may be just ignorance.
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