Peace Talks and Teddy Bears

Mixing metaphors seems appropriate since news from Annapolis is being trumpeted in all quarters, each with his own spin according to the ax each has to grind. Meanwhile, a well-meaning but naive schoolteacher sits somewhere in hiding, fearing for her life, after having the temerity to ask her Muslim students to "name the bear." If the name 'Muhammad' is well into and climbing in the top-20 favorite names in Britain, you can imagine where it is in a Sudanese school, can't you?

But the schoolteacher's naïveté can only be matched by the smiling fellow you see at the podium in the photo above. If the Saudis wouldn’t shake hands with an Israeli, what kind of accord is worth the paper it is written upon? I would suggest that those who believe anything other than the ultimate destruction of the state of Israel is the long range goal of all "faithful" Islamic religionists would do well to pinch themselves, stop sniffing the fumes of postmodern Enlightenment secular humanism -- that is, leave the Age-of-Aquarius "I Want to Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony" pipe dreams in the 60's -- and realize the goal of Islam is extermination of Judaism in general and Israel in particular.

For a fine essay on the naïveté of a British schoolteacher and, I might add, an American President and his Secretary of State, read Fitzgerald: The Teddy Bear Incident at Dhimmi Watch.

UPDATE: "Imprisoning this lady does not satisfy the thirst of Muslims in Sudan. But we welcome imprisonment and expulsion," the cleric, Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri, a well-known hard-liner, told worshippers. "This an arrogant woman who came to our country, cashing her salary in dollars, teaching our children hatred of our Prophet Muhammad," he said. The "thirst of Muslims in Sudan" or elsewhere, I surmise. If the teacher actually DID go to teach "children hatred of (the) Prophet Muhammad," I completely retract what I said about her naïveté. As it stands, the accusatory gesture of the primitive Sacred still wins the day in Sudan, and the school teacher isn't the one pointing.