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In Paris, 163 heads of schools have made a public protest about the threats to their safety made by “aggressive” Muslim parents. The heads of school, and their teachers, are terrified. They remember the decapitation of Samuel Paty, who had dared to show his pupils — though telling Muslim students they need not remain in the classroom while it was being shown — a single cartoon of Muhammad, as part of a discussion on free speech. Paty’s executioner was not even a parent, but just a Muslim who had heard about his supposed “blasphemy” and arrived at the school from afar to see justice done, by slitting the throat of the conscientious teacher as he walked home.
More on the latest death threats made by Muslims to school personnel can be found here: “A demonstration by 163 school headmasters in Paris to stop death threats made by Muslim parents: They denounce the aggressiveness of the parents and the false accusations of alleged Islamophobia,” Medforth, March 5, 2024:
A demonstration by 163 school headmasters in Paris to stop death threats made by Muslim parents: They denounce the aggressiveness of the parents and the false accusations of alleged Islamophobia
The trigger was the incident on Wednesday the 28th of February at the Ravel Lyceum: a headmaster was threatened with death after he reminded a female pupil that she must remove her headscarf. According to these headmasters and headmistresses, disputes of this kind are anything but unique.
The principle of laicité — the separation of church and state, or secularism, emphatically applied — is a central principle of the French government, and of French education. According to French law, all outward and visible signs of religious identity are banned in state schools. Hijabs are banned, as are crucifixes, kippahs, and turbans, and other signs of a particular religious identity. The headmaster at the Ravel Lyceum was merely enforcing the law, as he was required to do by the government. But the girl he told to remove her hijab went home and complained to her family, and someone — most likely her father — then threatened the headmaster with death which, given the murder of Samuel Paty, had to be taken seriously.
It is important to show solidarity, confirms Nicolas Bray, representative of the SNPDEN trade union in Paris: “There are colleagues who are regularly threatened in their jobs and we support everyone by means of this campaign. It is the issue of secularism that is under attack. There are recent attacks that can be noted.”
These threats are now made with some regularity by angry Muslim parents.Imagine the fear and trembling of teachers who have to tell female students to remove their hijabs, and face the fury of a Muslim father or uncle or brother who may post a death threat on social media, or call on fellow Muslims to avenge the honor of the girl, or may even appear at the school, shake his fist, and warn the teacher not to enforce what the French law requires. What can the teacher, or the school’s headmaster, do? This prospect makes the job of teacher or head of school much less desirable. Some may resign rather than endure this continuing trauma. The education of non-Muslim students is also affected by such an atmosphere of fear.
There were 163 school headmasters out of 380 (Paris intra-muros). They had come to react to the death threats received by the headmaster of the Lycée Maurice Ravel. They denounced the attacks by parents and the false accusations of Islamophobia. BFMTV
On Monday, more than 170 head teachers from high schools and secondary schools in Paris, representing around half of the schools in the capital, gathered in Sorbonne Square. They demonstrated their support for the headmaster of the Lycée Ravel, who had received death threats after asking a pupil to take off her headscarf at school. Nicolas Bray, headmaster of the Fénelon high school and academic secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa Paris, the largest union for education management staff, summed up the mobilisation by telling Le Figaro: “It’s not ‘Je suis Charlie’, but we’re here to make the point that it could happen to any of us.”
On Wednesday the 28th of February, the headmaster of the school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris was threatened with death on social media after he asked a pupil to take off her headscarf.
At the weekend, the unions representing school headmasters in Paris called for solidarity and expressed their concern about the death threats received by some colleagues for applying the principles of secularism. They pointed out how quickly the accusations spread via social networks, putting these professionals at risk. The unions declared that such methods were unacceptable and welcomed the support of the Ministry and the Academy of Paris. Kamel Aït Bouali, headmaster of the Collège Thomas Mann (Paris 13e) and academic secretary of the Sgen-CFDT, told our colleagues: “The trigger is Ravel and the violation of secularism. I have no evidence to confirm that it is a provocation, but we are talking about a BTS (Brevet de technician superieur) student who should have known the rules for a long time.”
The student who had been ordered to remove her hijab had been in the French school system for at least the two years it took to obtain the BTS diploma, so she knew perfectly well that wearing the hijab was a violation of French law. By telling her parents, and posting about the incident on social media, she was deliberately endangering the headmaster of the Ravel Lyceum. She’s a sinister troublemaker, and ought to be punished by the state. Expulsion is one possibility that should be carefully considered. And whoever made the actual death threat — likely a male relative — should be prosecuted. If the word gets out that such behavior will not be tolerated, and will be severely punished, that should concentrate Muslim minds.
In my opinion, crucifixes, kippot, turbans, the traditional dress of the Amish or the Chassidim, Moslem women’s headcoveringd THAT SHOW THE FACE should not br banned. The hijab is a problem. It covers the face. The teachers and studentd should be able to see WHO THAT IS.
I agree about allowing the clothing, but only because Muslims should be conspicuous. Let’s pass a law requiring all Muslim men to dress like Ali-Baba or Mullah Omar.
Like requirimg Jews to wear yellow stars?
Nada. Like making conservatives wear the COVID mask.
I agree. There’s no real good guy in this dispute. I think the French government has gone too far in banning even students – not just school employees – from wearing traditional expressions of their faith. I wonder what their policy is about wearing clothing or jewelry promoting LGBTQ and other political and social issues?
Wrong. The hijab does not cover the face. The niqab does.
The hijab covers no more than a scarf. It is designed to cover the hair, not the face.
It is, however, a religious symbol. Many girls actually like it, as it eliminates the issue of a “bad hair day”
And we’re expected to believe that the vast majority of moslems are peaceful?
You should capitalize the “M.”
No, you should refer to the as “mohamadeans”.
mosleMs? 😆 is that correct?
Like demanding capitalizing the “s” in “satanist” or the “a” in “antipope,” you mean?
What about more of us starting to pray and proclaim persistently to the real Lord of the universe?
Millions of muslims pray, often 5x a day, to their “deity”. Prayer is powerful.
Evil deities do not obey western laws. If we do not understand that we are in a spiritual war, we will loose.
Our Lord G-d does not act without prayers from His faithful.
There seem to be three kinds of Muslims (not just the traditional two–Sunni or Shiite): (1) the actual jihadi terrorists who commit the hideous, murderous, bloody atrocities (of which there are plenty, and new ones every week, everywhere); (2) the Muslims who agree with them and jubilantly celebrate their atrocities (apparently the majority of Muslims around the world, including here in the U.S., especially on our university campuses); and (3) the (apparently small) minority who accept, support, and live by our laws and constitutions in modern Western, never-Muslim nations, who worship quietly and privately but otherwise hold regular jobs without wanting to cut our throats or blow us to bits.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to know which kind is sitting in the driver’s seat of your taxi; I’ve had more than one who, from just a few comments he made and the way he made them, put me in a cold sweat as I sat in the back seat on the drive home from the airport.
Tolerance has always been an important Christian teaching and Western value at least since the Reformation and the dawning of the Age of Reason; nowhere in the Gospels did Jesus ever exhort His followers to murder non-believers, rape their wives and daughters as slaves or concubines, or to convert anyone by force, threats, or violence, nor to overthrow their own lawful governments.
Not so with Islam; the Koran is filled with exhortations to kill the “infidel,” especially the Jew. And that same murderous exhortation is still shouted by imams to their congregations around the world–including, frighteningly, throughout the West, including here in the U.S.
I worry, very much, that the huge invasion of the West by believers in this “religion” — facilitated and encouraged by Western “Liberals” — will be the End for us, and the End of our precious, short-lived Civilization and its culture, individual liberties, and way of life.
Couldn’t agree more. I posted about my own experience of spiritual warfare under an article about Hamas last week.
Perhaps all the troublemakers should be deported to their original countries, or when in doubt, to Somalia. France could use another Charles Martel about now.
I immediately think of one particular Congresswoman who ought to be immediately returned to her home country and city: Mogadishu, Somalia, where she’d no doubt feel much more comfortable among her own kind.
I needn’t mention her name, since everyone who’s been paying attention already knows it.
Just a month or two ago she gave a speech in her native language to a gathering of Somalis, here in the U.S., which someone taped and had translated into English, in which she flat-out declared that her job here, in the House of Representatives, was not to represent the interests of the United States, but rather the interests of Somalia, and the Somali “immigrants” living here.
That, alone, should have been more than sufficient to justify her expulsion for Congress for its flagrant violation of her oath of office to “Protect, preserve, and defend the Constitution of the United States,” which like most present-day Democrats she no doubt recited at a mere shibboleth necessary to achieve Power.
Abseulment! If they want Islam to govern their life they should move to an Islamic country. But, as the article points out, she and her family undoubtedly knew the rules but decided to press the issue anyway. This is how Islam work. It comes in, gathers its strength, starts pushing for little things (e.g., halal school lunches, exemption from bans on hijabs, public calls to prayer over loudspeakers, altering curricula, and so on. In a twix they are calling all the shots. Then sharia starts being incorporated into laws and the rest is history.
Are you saying that the Muslims threatened to kill the teachers because of the law forbidding hijabs?
Gee Joe. Say it ain’t so.
Anyone getting sick of Muslim attitude, a Muslim minority trying to impose its beliefs on everyone else, death threats from Muslims, etc., etc., etc.?
Anyone in France getting sick of Macron caving to the invader?
I suggest that you all might find this interesting. It is an articel concerning the behavior of moslems as they increase their percentage in a society/country:
Paris today means Dearborn tomorrow, Paducah the day after. Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.
Muslims should be examined before their allowed to come t o America we sure don’t need these types taking over
Better still, no western country should allow them entry.
Have you noticed, as I have, that there are no — none at all — terrorist attacks in Warsaw, nor in any of the other former (now free and sovereign, thanks largely to President Reagan and the determined bravery of their own people) Soviet satellites of Central and Eastern Europe?
Guess why that is: Because most of them are unapologetically Christian/Catholic, and determined to save and protect their nations and culture, and by their laws (enforced with walls, barbed wire, and loyal, vigilant armed border guards), and, well, they just don’t allow Moslems in, not even as “temporary” “asylum-seekers,” much less to settle in there on welfare for an easy, idle life with an EBT Card and monthly-refreshed pre-paid VISA Card, and “a path to citizenship.”
And they don’t feel embarrassed, nor bother to apologize, for that. Neither to the U.N., nor to the U.S., nor to anybody. I wish I knew the Polish equivalent of “GFY,’ because I’d like to learn it so that I could use it, frequently.
Maybe we could learn a lesson from those “dumb Polacks” and the 100% success of their policy, eh?
Agreed, although under the long-established doctrine of “taqquiya,” it’s perfectly okay, even required and no sin at all, to lie to an “infidel” even under oath, “in defense of Islam.”
So I’m not sure I”d believe their answers under questioning.
mosleMs …
I don’t know why some people insist on silly things.
You beat me to it.
the moose limbs R our #2 problem—#1 is the governments that support them,,,
The UN has dozens of islamIc dictators within its walls. That’s the root cause of the problem.
And I have wanted the physical dismantling of the UN for decades. Remember John Birch
I was looking at the picture of all of those un-shoed feet. Imagine the air quality with all of those exposed feet. Now imagine the air quality inside a mosque………..
The arse sniffing brigade on the streets of Paris, London, Berlin, New York City and other Western Cities is not about having enough mosque spaces but is about showing us just who they are what they are telling us will happen soon enough.
I suggest Christians, Jews, Hindus Sikhs etc should start shutting down the streets outside of a mosque and start singing Christian or Jewish hymns or Hindu chants and see the reaction of the muslim population when its thrown back in their smelly faces.
These arse sniffers are laughing in the faces of Western men as they see us as weak men that cannot defend their women or Nation, case in point the rape of thousands of young English girls by smelly old Paki bastards and the Police didn’t arrest them as they didn’t want to called racists.
Come in and rape my daughter but please dont call me a racist when I politely ask you to stop.
No wonder these backward savages are laughing in the faces of Western men.
Just as there are Christians ‘in-name-only’, there are Muslims who are NOT trying to either convert you or kill you, i.e., Muslims-in-name-only. Every devout Muslim is a JIHADIST and his/her sole purpose is to either A. Convince you to become a follower of their prophet or B. End your life.
However, with one vague exception: C. IF they give you the opportunity, you can convince” them you’re a ‘person-of-the-book’ (Christian or Jew) they then are ‘supposed’ to give you the “option” of paying (to them) ransom (jizya) and allow you to live. If you refuse option C. then you’re back to Option B.