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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
I don't get why naming the bear Mohammed was such a bad thing. Its okay to name people after the prophet but not teddy bears? I thought it would be an honour not an insult. Obviously the students thought the same -- they were the ones who voted to have the bear named Mohammed in the first place.
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The teacher should have been astute enough to know this would not fly in a mainly Muslim country. I mean, did we not just recently have the whole outrage of the cartoons printed in a Dutch paper? We might not understand the religion or the logic of the people practising that religion but we should at least have the smarts to be sensitive to the religion, especially in their own country.
This woman is in their country, working in their country, she should have used common sense. And the first thing she should have done when she accepted a teaching position in that country was educate herself about the various religions in that country and the culture of that country.