Teddy Bear Trial

Another Waste of Time

Hard to get off a topic that is so easy to discuss. Another sad story of close-mindedness and hypocrisy fueled by ignorance and an innocent mistake. As Prime Minister of Britain, Gordon Brown, phrased it, "common sense has prevailed." Now, if I were a Muslim hard-liner, this is a statement that would upset me more than the use of my prophet's name (also the most commonly used name in the world) to name a teddy bear for a class project. Though Brown's statement probably won't be taken out of context, in my eyes, he is claiming her release, against Muslim law, is logically the right thing to do. The other side of that pillow is that putting her in jail to begin with was illogical and irrational. Either way, the confusing thing for me are rules such as death by martyr can land a suicide bomber 70 virgins and honor to the family, but simply naming a teddy bear, in a elementary classroom can be "punished with up to 40 lashes, six months in prison and a fine." Really now? Not only do I not see the logic in this law, but I do not understand what kind of people could justify still enforcing it in today's time. Maybe I'm the ignorant one who doesn't understand how much pride and respect Islam has for their holy Prophet, or maybe I do not realize what true devotion. When it comes down to it, something like this should not cause this much outcry, it should not be headline news across the world, but because of the world-wide respect we have for a people destined to death, we have to deal with stupid situations like this.