Another headshaker from dar al-Islam, the House of Peace, that area of the planet under control of the Sharia. In this case, Sudanese children can be comforted knowing the authorities have taken charge and will try to have their teacher lashed. Her crime was to allow children equate an object of comfort and love with the Prophet:

A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad.

Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was arrested at at Khartoum's Unity High School yesterday, and accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam.

Her colleagues said that they feared for her safety after reports that groups of young men had gathered outside the Khartoum police station where she was taken and were shouting death threats.

The Unity school is a Christian-run but multi-racial and co-educational private school that is popular with Sudanese professionals and expatriate workers.

Of course, the dignity of the Prophet must be preserved against the humiliation that would have been brought upon him by the actions of children. Thank goodness that crowd of a young men, brave warriors for Islam, took a break from a busy day of chasing virgins and gang-raping women caught in the presence of men to yell death threats at a 54-year-old teacher armed with a teddy bear.

For contrast, consider the ridiculous position Jesus found himself in when children were allowed in his presence. Like the Sudanese police, his disciples moved quickly to scold those parents who would have had their children become too familiar with Jesus:

And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them. Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter into it. And embracing them and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them.

And in a more contemporary version of Mark 10:13:

And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child 2 will not enter it." Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.

The Bible does not record whether the disciples were reaching for whips or had started to chant death threats at the parents of the wayward children when Jesus intervened.

Yeah, let's leave Afghanistan to the Taliban. Children can watch their parents and teachers beaten and lashed and we can be fighting generations of twisted fanatics, products of a childhood filled with violence and terror.

You know Michelle Malkin is all over this one.