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A group of public school teachers in Montreal have just been discovered to have been busy introducing the principles of Islam into their classroom lessons. They weren’t teaching about the nature or history of Islam as a religion, but were instead presenting Islam as fact and the precepts of Sharia as principles to live by. When they discovered that this was being done, Canadian authorities were duly indignant. What they did in response, however, is more likely to embolden other teachers to follow the example of those who were “disciplined,” rather than discourage such activities in the future. It is by such weakness that Islamization is emboldened and advances.

The Canadian Press reported Tuesday that a “dominant clan” at Bedford School, a public school in Montreal, had “imposed strict, autocratic rule over students.” That “autocratic rule” was in service of a very particular goal. An investigation “revealed that the teachers — many of whom were of North African descent — were allegedly influenced by the local mosque and subjected children to physical and psychological violence.”

This was not violence for its own sake: “The evidence gathered suggested some teachers didn’t believe in learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders and refused to let specialists in the classroom, believing instead that discipline — with the idea of ‘breaking’ the student — would put them on the ‘right path.’”

Apparently that “right path” closely resembled the path of Islam, which the Qur’an describes as “the straight path.” (1:6) CP reported that “witnesses told the government investigators that local religious leaders exerted a ‘strong influence’ on several school staff and a mosque representative underscored to school officials the importance of having good relations with the place of worship.” These Muslim teachers “either refused to teach — or paid little attention to — the science and sex education curriculum.”

Quebec Premier François Legault explained: “There is something very disturbing in this case. It is this attempt by a group of teachers to introduce Islamist religious concepts into a public school. In Quebec, we decided a long time ago to remove religion from public schools. We will never accept going back.”

Legault added that he was “shocked” that the entire affair had taken place, and “promised on Tuesday to toughen secularism measures in schools.” To demonstrate how serious he was about dealing with this problem, Legault “appointed Education Minister Bernard Drainville and Jean-François Roberge, the minister responsible for secularism, to come up with solutions to prevent religion from creeping into classrooms.”

The Centre de services scolaire de Montréal, which CP describes as “Quebec’s largest school service centre,” said that the eleven offending teachers who had been introducing “Islamist” teachings into the Bedford School had been “suspended with pay after a government investigation.”

Suspended with pay?  By golly, that’ll show ‘em! These eleven teachers likely can’t believe their good fortune. There they were, working away in secular Montreal to introduce their public school students to Islam, and to set in motion the Islamization of the area. When the local guardians of secularism discovered what they were doing, they didn’t fire them. They didn’t even suspend them without pay. Instead, Quebec authorities gave them what amounted to paid vacations for taking the trouble to try to make Muslims out of their children.

How these teachers must be laughing at the weakness of Montreal authorities. Those authorities have now gone on record defending Quebec’s secular character and deploring what these eleven North African teachers tried to do at Bedford School, but really, what safeguards are they putting in place to ensure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again?

Just as authorities all over the West pretend that each and every act of jihad in Europe or North America is an isolated incident that has nothing whatsoever to do with any larger imperative, school officials in Montreal are likely to treat what happened at the Bedford School as an anomalous incident with no connection to any larger tendencies. That’s where they go tragically wrong, for like all Western officials at virtually every level, they do not know and refuse to learn that the Qur’an enjoins Muslims to fight unbelievers “until persecution is no more and religion is all for Allah.” (8:39)

Fighting until persecution is no more is defensive, but if Muslims must continue to fight “until religion is all for Allah,” those among them who take this command seriously are going to end up fighting a lot of unbelievers who are simply minding their own business but their religion is not all for Allah. The Muslims who were introducing Islam into Bedford School were not the only Muslims working for the Islamization of the West. By the time Montreal officials figure that out, it will likely be too late to do anything effective about it.