Dear religious extremists: SHUT UP!

Seriously, extremists in general should take a coffee break because it might just clear their mind. There is the issue of the teacher in Sudan who got arrested because she complied with a vote in her class to have a teddy bear named Muhammad. There is also the man in India who married, and impregnated his daughter, because he claimed that Allah told him. It's people like these, at least the most high profile of them, that make Islam, and religion in general, a terrible thing.

This case is so crazy that I'm not sure where to start from. The Unity school in Sudan is a school where teachers from all over teach there. The teacher in this case did a unit on animals, and the class had a vote on what to name the bear. The kids all voted to name the bear Muhammad. The extremists got pissed. Knee jerk reaction.

If anything, these children are receiving religious education, right? I would assume that some of the religious educators are the same extremists who wanted this woman jailed, and now killed, right? If it should be anyone that's prisoned, it should be the religious institution of Sudan who hasn't taught these children their Iconoclastic ways before. The same people who are calling for the death of this teacher should be the ones that should be sent to prison and lashed.

As well, extremists of any kind are uneducated, to say the least. They use religion to over-emphasize their intelligence, which is sadly moot. If anyone is going to get a religious education, they should also have a general understanding of the world and take a relativistic approach to other cultures and religions. Religious education should be about understanding of not just your own religion, but the other major ones too, and only that way will there be some harmony to both religion and culture.