Dear Sudan, Meet our 42” High-Def Flat Screen Television, Muhammad.

N.O.W. has officially become an irrelevant feminist organization, fully sound and fury signifying nothing. Actually, not so much sound and fury, either. If there was ever a no-brainer issue for which a feminist organization to take a stand, it’s the case of the British school teacher, Gillian Gibbons who because she had the temerity to allow her class of Sudanese children to name a teddy bear, “Muhammad”, faces 40 lashes, jail time and a possible fine. Read article here.

According to the article, “a spokeswoman for the National Organization for Women said the situation is definitely on the radar, and N.O.W. is not ignoring it.” “But she added that the U.S.-based organization is not putting out a statement or taking a position.” Yep. The NAGs are all over it… hi-liters at the ready just waiting for the word to start making placards and buying batteries for their bullhorns. We checked their website and there is no mention of the incident, let alone a statement.

Former Los Angeles Chapter N.O.W. President, Tammy Bruce (Bruce is representative of a new strain of hawkish, pro-Western, anti-authoritarian feminists that we find appealing…. well, that and the fact that she’s kinda hot. Sue us.) called out N.O.W. for their silence by issuing the quote of the day:

“The American feminist movement has not taken one stand to support the women of Iraq, the women of Afghanistan, the women of Iran,” she said. “It is the United States Marines who have been doing the feminist work by liberating women and children around the world.”

For their part, the Brits are exhibiting their usual amount of pique by executing a lot of “discussion” and “summoning” and what not.

And the Sudanese….? These people are priceless. Again, from the article:
Ministry spokesman, Ali al-Sadeq, said the case of a "teacher's misconduct against the Islamic faith" should not have provoked a British government caution warning to its citizens in Sudan.
Al-Sadeq said this was particularly so after the school had apologized to the parents, pupils and to the Sudanese in general for the teacher's "unacceptable conduct."

Sure, Ali. Don’t know why British nationals living in your sorry country should be worried that one of their own faces medieval torture for offending the great religion of Islam by naming a damn class mascot Muhammad. Read here for more reaction from across the Islamosphere.

To Tammy Bruce’s point… were this to ever happen to one of our own, we would fervently hope this country’s CinC would have the stones to have an element of the 82nd Airborne Division on hot standby to execute a “punitive” rescue operation.

And not to go Ann Coulter on everybody, but why does it seem the most tolerant strains of Islam can be found in corners of the globe where the 3rd ID and 1st MEF have performed a little missionary work of their own?