http://www.adeldarwish.com/?p=18 Political commentary on Westminster Politics, Parliament & Whitehall Gossip & World Current Affairs (special attention to Middle East) Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.adeldarwish.com/?p=18#comment-1975 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:09:31 +0000 http://www.adeldarwish.com/?p=18#comment-1975 [...] I’ve been watching this case for a couple of days, and I simply don’t believe that it is really some kind of unthinkable offense in Islamic culture to name a stuffed animal Mohammed. Adel Darwish writes about his childhood in Alexandria, when Sudanese Muslim children routinely named their pets and toys Mohammed, Ali, Fatima, and so forth. At Comment Is Free, one of Gibbons’ colleagues in Khartoum writes that none of the parents at the school raised any objection at all to the children’s naming the bear Mohammed. And a seven-year-old boy in the class tells reporters that it was his idea to name the bear Mohammed (after himself, not the Prophet) and the other kids agreed. [...] […] I’ve been watching this case for a couple of days, and I simply don’t believe that it is really some kind of unthinkable offense in Islamic culture to name a stuffed animal Mohammed. Adel Darwish writes about his childhood in Alexandria, when Sudanese Muslim children routinely named their pets and toys Mohammed, Ali, Fatima, and so forth. At Comment Is Free, one of Gibbons’ colleagues in Khartoum writes that none of the parents at the school raised any objection at all to the children’s naming the bear Mohammed. And a seven-year-old boy in the class tells reporters that it was his idea to name the bear Mohammed (after himself, not the Prophet) and the other kids agreed. […]

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