Quoting Ron Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > the British teacher in Sudan facing > 6months in prison and 40 lashes for allowing her class to name a teddy > bear Mohammed being a current case in point. > > [Ron] > That is a rather good point of discussion, being imprisoned for > associating the name of the prophet Mohammad with a teddy bear is > something like being imprisoned for burning a flag in the United States. > It's all about what that symbol means to the culture, to us it's just a > teddy bear to them it's just a flag. > I don't know if there is currently a law against burning the flag but > there > Are a lot of people who would vote it into law who are extremely > offended > By the action. All in the name of moral goodness.
I believe the Supreme Court has ruled the burning of the American flag is not a crime but an expression of free speech -- an example of an intellectual value over social conformity. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
