It seems the Sudanese law enforcement authorities are determined to re-emphasise the ‘mentalist’ element of Islamic fundamentalist.

Hot on the heels of Muslim world becoming outraged at a Danish cartoon of the prophet Muhammed, it seems the next religious outrage has occurred in the Sudan.

An English teacher, Gillian Gibbons, has asked her class to vote on a name for the class teddy bear. The children then decided on the name Muhammed.

And the insensitive bitch allowed it. Quite rightly she has ben arrested, and faces six months in jail, or forty lashes (I am assuming this is not some lengthy beauty treatment).

I do think it is a bit unfair not to punish the children though. It was their idea after all. I am sure that forty lashes would ensure that any six or seven year-old would never take the prophet’s name in vain, ever again.

I am glad that the Sudanese have taken such a firm stance on this. It would be very easy for a country like that to focus on other aspects of its society like increasing the very low per capita output, reducing child mortality, or even providing food and clean water to it’s 39 million people, rather than the names of teddy bears.

Just to be on the safe side though, I have created a special hiding place in the loft for Jesus the stuffed Lion, Brahman the Golliwog and Buddha the Tank Engine.

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