Muhammad

It would be tragic if it was not so ridiculous. The BBC has details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7656084.stm

As the many previous incidents have proved, the best way to punish art/literature that one does not like is to ignore it. Certainly committing crimes and violence which only gives it the benefit of free publicity on the news channels is the least productive way to go.

Thousands of people have marched in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to call for UK teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot.
Mrs Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was jailed by a court on Thursday after allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammed.

A very good review of Karen Armstrong's new book, Muhammad: a prophet for our time has been published in today's New York Times. I was a big fan of her previous book on the subject, and like what I've read so far in NPR's excerpt. Anyone else read it yet? I'd be curious as to the differences between this book and the previous one, given the occurrence of 9/11 etc in the meanwhile; apparently the current Islamophobic political situation was one of her motives for the new book.