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Article: Whatever happened to common sense?
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- UNB - United News of Bangladesh
- Article date:
- December 7, 2007
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By: Samya F. FarooqDecember 7 (Dhaka Courier): Naming a class teddy bear, for a group of excitable six and seven year old students seems like a simple enough task, right? Well, evidently not if you happen to be Gillian Gibbons.The 54 year old British school teacher from Liverpool was arrested November 25 on charges of blasphemy, accused of allowing her students to name a stuffed-toy, after the most revered prophet, Mohammed. Gillian Gibbons was condemned as an 'infidel' and accused of 'the pollution of children's minds', she was as such initially charged of inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs, those charges were later dropped. According ...