Friday, November 30, 2007

Hymens and Teddy Bears

As my English colleague Chez said, totally flippin' insane, except he used a ruder 'f' word. Some weeks ago a story appeared in the English Daily Mail headlined...
Women get 'virginity fix' NHS operations
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=494118&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments

Now, British officials are trying to secure the release of a British schoolteacher arrested in Sudan for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad...
Muhammad teddy teacher arrested
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7114439.stm

I don't even know where to begin about commenting upon these matters. Please, when will some sanity return to our world?

Arther C. Withernee, Correspondent for WEMW
Report 30 November 2007