Don't Name Your Teddy Bear "Buddha" -- Or We'll Rip Your Head Off and Stuff it Down Your Throat! Oh no wait. We won't do that, will we.

Yes, just like the world-renowned Taliban continues unknowingly to spread the sacred dharma by bringing us continuing demonstrations of the truth of impermanence, the Sudaneses kindly show us their compassionate buddhactivity by profoundly demonstrating passion, aggression, and ignorance.

Thus, the Sudanese -- so famed for their bodhisattva stuff in Darfur -- get all bent out of shape over naming a Teddy Bear "Muhammad."

I do so enjoy it when someone who does not practice a particular religion gets charged with blasphemy by those who do.  'Cause, you know, I'd figured otherwise.  Like that you had to be Muslim to blaspheme Islam.  But what do I know?  They did it to Salman Rushdie, why not do it to everyone else?  Oh.  Would that count as demonstrating the wisdom of equanimity?

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[Professor Of Pop]

Thank you for speaking up about this, and about this kind of thing.

[Professor Of Pop]

Thank you for speaking up about this, and about this kind of thing.