Teddy-Bear of death

It is almost unbelievable. The news has offered the story of a school teacher that suffered religious abuse for daring to allow an 8 year old child in her class to name a teddy bear, Mohammed. The outrage was so intense that she felt obliged to leave the country. According to the news some poor offended adults were even calling for the death penalty on the teacher. The sheer ignorance of such behavior is appalling, and I don't mean the behavior of either the child or the teacher.

What absolute nonsense. Fear our religion or we will kill you. Mindless barbarism, nothing more. The irony is that those who cry for the blood of teddy bear supporters would scream bloody murder (pun intended) if anyone in Canada tried to infringe upon their religious liberties. In Canada we are so leary of offending someone else's religious senitivities that we cannot openly enjoy our own. We must put our culture and faith on hold for the sake of those immigrating from foreign cultures - to the point of denying our own culture. Yet in many cases if we travelled abroad we would quickly find that our culture must still be denied lest we be thrown in jail, threatened with violence and/or death. Wonderful. In our home country we must deny our faith and culture, and abroad in the greater world we must deny our faith and culture.

This is very similar to the little judo girl in the news last week - she was scandalized because she could not enter a judo competition while wearing her religious head dress. Forget that the rules were in place years before she was even born - no, judo ontario must deny its own culture in order to appease the religious sensitivities of an 11 year old girl! I am disgusted by those who wage such oppressive and intolerant wars. Why must we cower before the hypocracy of those who demand their own preferences at the expense of others. Once upon a time Canada had a culture of its own - it is a shame that it has clearly fallen to the wayside in the name of perverted tolerance.