Ubiquitous wrote:
> NewsBusters.org re****ts on an exchange that occurred last week on "The
> View," which apparently is a daytime TV show featuring a panel of mostly
> ditsy female celebrities [1]:
>
> Whoopi Goldberg: Now in the Sudan, there's a British teacher who is
> possibly going to be stoned or lashed... Because, in her class they had
> some teddy bears and she, one of the kids wanted to name ... his teddy
> bear Muhammad and she said "fine." Apparently, other children complained
> to their parents, which is how it ended up in the hands of the religious
> leaders, and the religious leaders are very very upset...
>
> Sherri Shepherd: I think it's like it's sacrilegious to name a stuffed
> toy Muhammad. But you know, you would think that with her being in
> Sudan, she would know the rules and customs. Because I know I performed
> stand up in Turkey, and they gave me a big thick packet on the customs,
> and what you could and could not do, and how you would offend people. So
> I'm surprised that she didn't know it might be offensive.
>
> Goldberg: Yeah, because you'd think if you're going overseas, I mean, we
> had this discussion yesterday about people coming to America and
> learning the customs and knowing what is cool, and what isn't cool. But
> I find that maybe we are not--and I say we just as European and
> American, we're not as anxious to learn the customs before we go places.
> It's just one of the reasons we're called the ugly Americans.
>
> NewsBusters' Justin McCarthy is rightly appalled at the ladies' blasé
> attitude toward the Sudanese threat to beat or execute an innocent
> woman.
What says she was innocent?
" Sudanese President Omar al-Ba****r granted her a presidential pardon
earlier Monday, and she left the country hours later under court order.
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Sudanese courts ruled she should be de****ted after completing her
sentence."
Here she would be innocent, there she isn't.
Goldberg's comment gives an insight as to why. Note that she
> characterizes the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, as being among "the ugly
> Americans," notwithstanding that she isn't American at all. The view
> here really seems to be that the enemy of my country is my friend--that
> the "customs" of Sudan's fanatics are worthy of respect because they are
> based in hatred of America and the West.
No, they said she broke their law. You may not like their law, but that
is what it is.
>
> [1]:
> http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2007/11/30/view-co-hosts-bl
> ame-woman-persecuted-sudan
>
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