Teddy Bear rage - Briton arrested in Sudan over teddy named Mohammed

British teacher has been arrested in Sudan for allowing her seven-year-old students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, the British Embassy said.

Gillian Gibbons was detained yesterday on suspicion of insulting the Prophet Mohammed.

Colleagues of the 54-year-old teacher from Liverpool told Reuters they feared for her safety after receiving reports that young men were gathering outside the Khartoum police station where she was being held.Young men like "Islamic Rage Boy"?...

British officials said it remained unclear whether she had been formally charged.

Ms Gibbons was arrested after it emerged that she allowed her class at Unity High School in central Khartoum choose the name for the stuffed toy as part of a school project.

A spokesman for the British Embassy in Khartoum said: "The children chose the name because it is very common here.

"This happened in September and the parents did not have a problem with it.

"We are in contact with the authorities here and they have visited the teacher and she is in a good condition."

Robert Boulos, the director of the school, told Reuters that Ms Gibbons set up the project as part of a British National Curriculum course to learn about animals. This year's animal was the bear, and Ms Gibbons asked the children to name the stuffed toy.

Mr Boulos said the children came up with eight names including Abdullah and Hassan, but Mohammed proved by far the most popular.

Each child was given a chance to take the bear home and write a diary about what they did with the toy, Mr Boulos told Reuters.

The website for the Sudanese Media Centre, which has close ties with the country's government, reported that Mrs Gibbons could be prosecuted under "faith and religions" legislation.

It states: "Khartoum attorney office opens a claim under article 125 of the criminal law (insult of faith and religions) against a British national female teacher named Julian (sic) working for unruly school in Khartoum.

"Head of the attorney offices Mutusim Abdallah told (SMC) that legal arrangements are under way to issue warrant of arrest against the suspect upon a complaint presented by the ministry of education.

"Abdallah said the suspect teacher printed the name of Prophet Mohammed PBUH on a doll in a shape of bear.

"Then she wrote letters to student guardians telling them that they should receive a doll on which the name Mohammed is printed.

"However this event was met with wide condemnation by guardians of the students."

Unity, an independent British school founded in 1902, teaches the English National Curriculum to Christian and Muslim students aged 4 to 18.

**Time to demand her release or we blow the bastards off the map what was in days gone by called "gunboat diplomacy" , but with the New Labour cowards in power they will no doubt ask the Sudanese goat fuckers for her back nicely.

Guess as New Labour's Kim Howells would say its those "shared values." that we have with the moslem world...

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