A trail of blood and self-censorship, in France Islam penetrates schools
The trail of blood linked to Charlie Hebdo's caricatures continues. After the massacre in the editorial office in 2015 and the attack three weeks ago on the journalists of the Premières Lignes agency in the same street where the editorial office of the satirical newspaper once stood, another abominable murder in the heart of Europe. A high school history professor in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded on the street, right next to the school where he taught. The killer, an 18-year-old Chechen born in Moscow and then shot down by the police, according to police sources shouted “Allah-o-Akhbar” before the attack and then posted a video of the teacher's body on social media . The barbarously murdered history professor was reported last October 5 by the parents of the students because during a course on freedom of expression and the secular values of the Republic he had shown the cartoons of Mohammed in class.
Shortly after the attack, which took place near the school, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor opened an investigation for "murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise". In total, custody notices were issued for nine people. Among them are four family members of the assailant shot down on Friday: his parents, grandfather and 17-year-old younger brother. Among those arrested was also the father of one of the students who made a video on social networks that soon became viral and in which he complains about the attitude of the teacher who, before showing the cartoons of Mohammed to his students, had suggested to who could be shocked to leave the room.
The satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo , whose editorial office is still locked up and in a strictly secret place, reacted strongly on Twitter :
“Intolerance has just crossed a new threshold and it seems to stop at nothing in order to impose its terror on our country. Only the determination of political power and the solidarity of all will defeat this fascist ideology. This repugnant act pains our democracy, but it must make us more combative than ever to defend our freedom ”.
“They will not pass. Obscurantism will not win, ”thundered President Macron, visibly moved, surrounded by the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, and the education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer. "With the terrible murder of a teacher, the Republic and his school are once again the target of Islamist terrorism," former President of the Republic François Hollande said on Twitter . “More than ever we must be united in the face of barbarism and obscurantism. My thoughts go to the teacher's family and to the whole educational community ”. Meanwhile, in the National Assembly the deputies, in a moment of emotion, stood up in unison to "greet the memory" of the beheaded master and denounce the abominable attack.
And according to an Ifop survey released by the Europe 1 antenna, more and more school teachers in France are self-censoring themselves in the face of radical Islam. Jean-Pierre Obin, former inspector of the Ministry of Education and author of the book "Comment on a laissé Islamisme pénétrer l'école" (How we let Islam penetrate the schools) recalled that according to the Ifop survey , 40 per one hundred professors declare that they censor themselves to avoid problems with their Muslim students. And in certain sensitive areas such as the ZEP (areas of priority education) this rate even exceeds 50 percent for fear of reprisals and accidents. Since 2015, jihadist attacks against civilians in France have resulted in the killing of as many as 259 people. Blood and censorship that slide the country into the abyss once a beacon of human rights.
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