Most people have heard about the
19-year-old Saudi gang-rape victim getting 200 lashes and six months in jail for keeping company with a unrelated man.
Now comes
this story about a British school teacher in Sudan facing 40 lashes* for naming a teddy bear after Muhammad in a class exercise for her students.
No word on the fate of the bear...
*I originally wrote 50 lashes. Apparently, I didn't account for the increased liberalization of the new Islamist radicals...