but ms. gibbons did not choose the bear's name: she asked her class of children to vote on it.

if a whipping is justified the children should be whipped, not ms. gibbons (unless a free vote also offends islamic sensibilities).

can we have some moslem sympathisers speak up for whipping eight year old schoolchildren? (the practice is hardly unknown in shariah countries).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7118245.stm
edit: gibbonboy : several of my best friends are technically moslems. but i'd have to say that none of them are very devout, and most of them i expect to leave the confession within the decade.