'View' Co-Hosts Blame Woman Persecuted by Sudan

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All the co-hosts of "The View," a show intended to advance women’s voices, do not get offended by women’s persecution in the Islamic world. On the November 30 edition, in discussing the British woman charged for naming a class teddy bear Muhammad, the co-hosts did not direct any anger at the Sudanese government, but rather blamed the woman for not adapting to their culture.

Co-host Sherri Shepherd opined "you would think that with her being in Sudan, she would know the rules and customs." Whoopi Goldberg said Europeans and Americans are "not as anxious to learn the customs before we go places." And of course that’s why we’re called "ugly Americans."

The show was recorded before news of the woman’s 15 day sentence. The entire transcript is below.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now in the Sudan, there’s a British teacher who is possibly going to be stoned or lashed.

JOY BEHAR: A woman.

GOLDBERG: A woman, yeah. Because, in her class they had some teddy bears and she, one of the kids wanted to name his kid- his teddy bear Muhammad and she said "fine." Apparently, other children complained to their parents, which is how it ended up in the hands of the religious leaders, and the religious leaders are very very upset. Now, do you think that they’re-

GLORIA ESTEFAN: They arrested her.

GOLDBERG: Yeah, they arrested her. It is a huge thing.

BEHAR: There are a lot of Muhammads, though, in that part of the world.

GOLDBERG: Yes, but they’re people, and not animals.

BEHAR: Right, but this isn’t even an animal. This is a stuffed toy.

GOLDBERG: Yes, it’s a stuffed toy.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: I think it’s like it’s sacrilegious to name a stuffed toy Muhammad. But you know, you would think that with her being in Sudan, she would know the rules and customs. Because I know I performed stand up in Turkey, and they gave me a big thick packet on the customs, and what you could and could not do, and how you would offend people. So I’m surprised that she didn’t know it might be offensive.

GOLDBERG: Yeah, because you’d think if you’re going overseas, I mean, we had this discussion yesterday about people coming to America and learning the customs and knowing what is cool, and what isn’t cool. But I find that maybe we are not- and I say we just as European and American, we’re not as anxious to learn the customs before we go places. It’s just one of the reasons we’re called the ugly Americans.


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Hmmmm, people coming to America and learning the customs?

What's that all about? Never heard of it

That's right, exLib, you

That's right, exLib, you know the drill....

When we go to their countries, we have to respect their customs;

When they come here, we have to respect their customs.

You know MB

It occurred to me the other irony of this is that if a Christian wants to limit or eliminate legal abortion WE are the facists."

(Protecting the unborn)

But some coutnry has a law about naming a teddy bear after their spiritual leader it's totally reasonable?

(Brutally punishing someone for not much).

Not to mention standing up for womens' rights in the world.

I guess the only "right" women need to have anywhere in the world is a Government Funded abortion.  If you don't have that, you ain't free.  Everything else, unimportant.

Unbelievable.

what happend to the 40

what happend to the 40 lashes she was to get for that awful horrible, dispicable, crime of calling a teady bear Mohamed.

 

I have re-named all of my kids stuffed aniamls, all 5 of my pets ( 1 dog, 2 birds, a turle , and tortice) Mohamed

and I finaly gave "little joe" (joe is my name)  a proper nickname ...Mohamed

 

and if any one in my house refuses to use that name I behead them.   my 8 year old son just wouldn't get it, and now I have 1  less person to buyt xmas presnts for.

Red Dragon the 40 lashes were reduced

Because the British government intervened the 40 lashes were eliminated.

That's why the massive protests for the "overly-lenient" sentence.

Oh, right


That's why the massive protests for the "overly-lenient" sentence.

Here's your latest "Religion of Peace Update"

 

ok thanks man, I hadn't

ok thanks man, I hadn't heard that anywhere.

 

 

Yup

I agree that when you go to another country you follow their rules.Why isnt it the same here.People come here and want us to change.

Not to sound

Not to sound conspiratorial, but that is all a part of the socialist/communist movement's plan. Change the USA from the inside by diluting our culture until it no longer exists. Their plan is to basically wipe out US cultural influences everywhere and anywhere they can.... no matter what the consequence.

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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." ~ Thomas Paine

Actually

It sounds about right.

Judeo Christian Values and Customs

The reason no one wants to follow our customs and the reason they want to change them is that since Jesus walked the earth few people truly want to live the way He called us to live.

So, knowing the truth in their hearts - at least at some point - but not wanting to ackowledge it, they try to blot out His followers from the face of the earth.  Or better yet, as we talked about in the Rick Warren thread, dilute it and make it look so much like the world, that no one objects.

The way you know you are truly living like Jesus intended is people will hate you and try to shut you up. 

The truly ironic thing is that it seems like the PC/Liberal crowd is taking the "enemy of my enemies is my friend" tactic in regards to Islam.  And like the guy in Die Hard who tries to negotiate with terroroists, they will eventually find themselves prisoners (at best) of the ones they thought would liberate themselves fromt the evil-intolerant Christian-Right.

liberal-bug-zapper, It is

liberal-bug-zapper,

It is not just in the US.  The European leadership is importing millions of muslims into Europe for the same reasons.  In Britain, there are even parrallel Sharia courts that are being allowed by the British Government to operate.  Apparently, they are even trying cases as serious as assault with a deadly weapon.  They are not "officially" recognized yet, but the Government is allowing them to operate.  It is only a matter of time before these courts are officially recognized.

See here, with link to news article: http://newsbusters.org/forums/latest-news/emerging-parallel-legal-systems-muslims-britain-17013

The European leadership is

The European leadership is importing millions of muslims into Europe for the same reasons. -alamojb

It's not a "socialist-communist" conspiracy by the Europeans, alamo, but the result may be the same.

Europeans are allowing massive immigration by Muslims because they are reproducing below the population replacement rate and they need workers to pay taxes into their system of socialism. And the Muslims are very "fertile." Read Pat Buchanan's "The Death of the West." or even just a couple of his columns on it and you'll see.

When (not if, but when) the Muslim minority becomes the Muslim majority in Britain and other European countries, Sharia law will be the norm.

I've said it before: Sharia law, not by conquest, but by abdication.

Unfortunately for honest

Unfortunately for honest people, we're going to have to deal with the duplicity of Liberals and the pap that comes out of their uneducated and bigoted mouths. It's unconscionable what they said about this situation, and had a similar conversation happened among conservatives, a firestorm would have erupted.

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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." ~ Thomas Paine

Is this a joke?

This show is like a parody of itself.

Saudis

Did the Saudis behead any women?

JDW

Sen Clinton: Distinguished Founder of Media Matters

 

Ugly Americans?

Whoopi Goldberg said "...we’re called "ugly Americans."

In Whoopi's case, I agree completely. 

Whoopi

Hey Whoopi, whaddya mean "we?"

Forget 911, I dial 10MM.

If I were Whoopi, I wouldn't

If I were Whoopi, I wouldn't be throwing the word "ugly" around much.

There's not enough alcohol in the world

Ah yes, "the View". Those intellectual heavyweights. Imagine waking up next to one of those bitches. Scary.

  The show has really gone

  The show has really gone 'green'.  They're all a bunch of dim bulbs.

Let's have the view operate under Sharia law.

Yes going over to help educate a group of kids would make you an ugly American even if you are not an American. But what do you call someone sitting on their fat ass and bitching about such an "ugly american" who faced a beating or worse just for an arbitrary fopah? I'd like to see how long this show would last under sharia law.

Answer: The time it takes light to travel less than an INCH.

ONE FEMTOSECOND.

OR TO BURY THEM UP TO THEIR NECKS IN SAND AND STONE EM.

iranian uranium; iranian uranium, iranian uranium..

So when ARE the Russians going to finish the iranian atoms for peace power plant?

OMG, Where do you start

OMG,

Where do you start with this.

They talk as though this is a new flash. Its been on the news for days not, but why check the news, when you are doing a talk show about current events.

JOY BEHAR: A woman.?? (no a camel) you moron.

 

The woman is British, not American (though she is ugly).

 

They have no problem with them beating her, and putting her in jail because she named a teddy bear Mohammed, “she should learn “their ways”.It’s a dam teddy bear, and they want to kill her. (We have to understand them as they start to stone you..)

 

New flash your mental giants: you will be the first to go if they ever take over.

And you make fun of Christians.. idiots.

Fat dumb and stupid... (will get you a job on the View..)

 

 

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

Burka for Joy

I can't wait to see Whoopi, Joy and the rest of the gang in their Burkas.

So it will be OK for us to

So it will be OK for us to stone or imprison all persons in the US who have not assimilated into our culture and offends the sensibilities of our religious leaders?

And this crystalizes the

And this is the liberal world view exposed: they are ashamed and feel guilty being Americans. Ergo, we are always in the wrong.

Why do I get the feeling....

.....that all of these people combined would be lucky to name more than 5 countries on an outline map of the world?

If you'll notice, from the

If you'll notice, from the picture, they had no adult supervision, even from their doddering mother, Barbara Walters...

Acting like a Roman

All righty, then. The gals on "Da View" will expect immigrants to speak English and respect our customs from now on, too.

That means no more clitorectomies or arranged marriages to fifteen year old relatives in West Mecca. (Ooops, I meant D-troit.) 

I wouldn't trust Sherri Shepherd to write up the 'big packet of rules' for foreign visitors to follow when they are in the USA, but I think the concept is good. Let's start with "we bathe more here than you do" and "we stand in line to get on a chairlift at a ski area". But, maybe that's just me.

It's time to withdraw from the rest of the globe, and let them kill as many of themselves as they want to, which is not an insignificant number. It's the best thing we could do to fight global warming.

Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.  -Franksam

So I guess this is all she

So I guess this is all she wrote for the Ya-Ya Sisterhood?

http://imdb.com/titl...

  By their logic there is

  By their logic there is no such thing as racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, nativism, or any of the other things that one group complains to another group about because in their viewpoint everything is settled and whatever the prevailing power structure is then that is what must be obeyed.

Give me break -- the woman

Give me break -- the woman in question, probably a liberal herself, probably thought she was being "tolerant" and "multicultural" by allowing the children to name the beloved teddy after The Prophet.

Sounds like the compassionate ladies (I use the term sarcastically) on The View would have sentenced her to the 40 lashes.

Other things deserving 40 lashes

I say, don't stop with the teddy bear. Here are some other instances where the culprit got off too easy. Would the ladies of the view change these each to 40 lashes?

  • 13-year old suspended for 5 days for drawing a picture of a gun on his homework.

  • 14-year old kicked out of school for bringing a butterknife (she forgot she had it as she ran, late, for her bus)

  • An 11-year-old girl was suspended from her school from doing "dangerous" cartwheels and hand stands during lunch time

  • A 10-year-old was suspended from school for reportedly using his thumb and forefinger as a pretend gun. The school said he violated its zero-tolerance weapons policy.

  • A 12-year-old has been expelled from school for taking scissors to a sewing class.

  • A teacher makes 5-year-old boy wear a yellow dress because he was talking too much.

  • Four kindergartners suspended for playing "Cops and Robbers" on the playground during recess.  

  • 13-year-old suspended for taking Tylenol for headache -- then has to go to Drug & Alchohol rehab.

With all this crime here in the U.S., I really don't see how the View girls have time to worry about Sudan.
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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Thisandthat, The school

Thisandthat,

The school where the kid took the Tylenol, is where I went to Jr. High.. (many, many moons ago..)

It good to be gone..lol

The school is right on the flight path to the NOB in Norfolk, the planes would go over so close you could see the bolts on the wheels..

 

 

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

Went to school there, eh?

.... That explains a lot!!!

---------JUSSSSTTTT kidding.

BTW, the best aspirn sceen in the movies was Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation after he got is "Jelly of the Month" bonus and went on that verbal tirade -- that was cool.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

TnT, if any of those things

TnT, if any of those things ever happens to a Muslim student in a US school, you can be sure the ladies of "The View" will be on it like pit bulls, and won't let go.

Those are all insane

Those are all insane suspensions. But, I guess fear of being shot will do that.

Hey bal, how about for a change you pretend you're a grownup

...?

I can sense your outrage

I can sense your outrage from here. It's palpable, and adorable.

No, bal, you're not important enough to engender "outrage"

You're just an immature twit, who, unable to compete intellectually, runs around humping the legs of other posters.

Those are all insane

Those are all insane suspensions. But, I guess fear of being shot will do that. balboa

Surely, you jest. Right?

Bal, I thought you a halfway

Bal, I thought you a halfway thoughtful lib. Now I know, without a doubt, that one does not exist.

 I mean, we had this

 I mean, we had this discussion yesterday about people coming to America and learning the customs and knowing what is cool, and what isn’t cool.

 

Yea that's the reason why I have to "press one for English and 2 para Espanol"

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Para continuar en Espanol,

"Para continuar en Espanol, oprima la estrella." (To continue in Spanish, press the star key.)

Of course the problem is,

Of course the problem is, they give those instructions in Spanish.

If she had been denied an

If she had been denied an abortion, the View-bats would have gone ballistic on that "barbaric" culture.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

These are the same idiots

These are the same idiots who think nothing of people crossing our borders illegally, refusing to learn English and refusing to assimilate into the American society

 

Hypocrites!

"jinx"... :)

we both used the same word: Hypocrites

Liberal Hypocrites

So when are these and all the other liberals going to start respecting OUR cultural traditions, and customs and refrain from committing blasphemy and sacrilege against OUR Judeo-Christian religious beliefs? Hmm? Oh, I guess no one gave them the American customs "packet". Will someone please send these highly offensive people a "packet"!!

Lol

Good idea

SHERRI SHEPHERD

SHERRI SHEPHERD said that....

"...I performed stand up in Turkey, and they gave me a big thick packet on the customs, and what you could and could not do, and how you would offend people. So I’m surprised that she didn’t know it might be offensive..."

If Sherri Shepherd read the chapter on Permissible Names for Teddy Bears in "the big thick packet", you'd think a teacher would have seen it.

 

stand up in Turkey, wow I

stand up in Turkey, wow I bet that went over well..do they find you just a funny as we do?Maybe you did stand up in a Turkey "outfit.."was it Thanksgiving? Now that would be funny! 

 

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

we had this discussion

we had this discussion yesterday about people coming to America and learning the customs and knowing what is cool,

And, of course, Whoopi, folks who come to America and ignorantly perform "uncool" acts are usually stoned to death. Or face the lash, thanks to the militant Christian President Chimy McMonkey's usurption of power... and his fascist junta.

Sure, that's how it works.

 

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Jack, I would add....and of

Jack, I would add....and of course they do that, right Whoopi? They all learn our customs and are "cool" with them?

Mother -- joking aside,

Mother -- joking aside, isn't it so peachy how liberals like Goldberg are so sensitive to the cultural norms of barbarians.

Hence not a word from the feminazis about the gross abuse of women's rights in places like the Sudan, including the lovely practise of genital mutilation of young girls.

Yet she and her ilk like Behar, wouldn't p+ss on a conservative if they were on fire. Which, presumably she would set.

Or am I being a tad too harsh here.

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Jack, not near harsh enough.

Jack, not near harsh enough. I can't say what I think here and still be a respected member of the NB society. I would surely be banned.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: I think

SHERRI SHEPHERD: I think it’s like it’s sacrilegious to name a stuffed toy Muhammad.

How about naming an illegal immigrant Jesus? Shouldn't that be punishable by stoning? To both the named and the namee?

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Or putting a crucifix in a

Or putting a crucifix in a jar of urine and calling it art... and funding it with taxpayer money..

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

The Ugly American

Whoopi is an idiot... "It's just one of the reasons we're called ugly Americans."

In the book, which highlights both American Exceptionalism as well as liberal cronyism, the "good" American is actually ugly while the useful idiot Americans are described as handsome.

Read a book, Whoopi!

A Graham Greene fan! Kudos

A Graham Greene fan! Kudos on correctly identifying the status of the "ugly" American.

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Liberal Bitches

To the women of the View, it is my hope that when you travel to moooslim contries you make a simple mistake and are held rigedly to all applicable islamic laws no matter how ridiculas. Try broadcasting your putrid show from Sudan, you will all be arrested shot and dismembered  before you can say I am a stupid liberal bitch.... 

To be fair...

The Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters did agree a couple of days ago that immigrants coming to America should learn English and assimilate into our culture. However, it is still outrageous that they did not express much anger at a woman jailed for naming a teddy bear a common name, but instead chastising her for not adopting to their barbaric culture.