This is one of those stories that after reading it, you have to stop and look around in order to make sure you're still in the 21st century:A British teacher facing 40 lashes in Sudan over a school teddy bear named Muhammad will discover today whether she will be charged with blasphemy. Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being questioned for a second day by police in Khartoum on suspicion of insulting Islam's prophet for allowing her seven-year-old pupils to give the toy the name of the prophet. It seems that Mrs. Gibbons initiated a class project on how animals live. As part of the project, she acquired a teddy bear and had the class name the toy with the kid's choice being "Mohammed." This didn't sit well with some practioners of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage: According to the Sudanese Media Centre, which is closely associated with the government, the attorney-general's office had opened proceedings against Ms Gibbons "under article 125 of the criminal law (insult of...(Read Full Post)