Former French Inspector General of National Education Jean-Pierre Obin states that “we have in the National Education, in the administration and even in the classrooms some teachers and officials who are in ideological denial or complacency in relation to Islamism.” He adds that the “extreme left, very present in National Education, that thinks that attacking Islamism is attacking Islam.”
While the relationship between Islamism and Islam may be closer than Obin thinks, he is absolutely correct that the jihad ideology has spread in French schools, and schools all over the West, because of the Left’s refusal to oppose it. The Leftist worldview today centers upon identity politics and the multicultural dogma that all cultures are equal — even those which regard infidels and women as inferiors, those which practice female genital mutilation (FGM), and those which sanction wife-beating and behead people for blasphemy. The Leftist ideology provides fertile soil for the stealth jihad to proliferate.
Too many people place the blame for the introduction of jihadis and Sharia supremacists into the West solely upon those jihadis (stealth and violent). Yet the jihad against the West has gone on for 1400 years. It is Leftists who are to blame for allowing jihadis and Islamic supremacists free entry into European and North American countries via open-door immigration policies, as well as complete freedom to operate on Western soil, in the name of “diversity.” The result: the West is rapidly losing its freedoms and the rule of law, as authorities are seized by the fear of retribution for criticizing Islam. Jihad Watch has been warning about the Leftist/Islamic alliance for years.
“Islamism: ‘In National Education, some of those responsible are in denial,'” translated from “Islamisme: ‘Dans l’Éducation nationale, une partie des responsables sont dans le déni,'” Europe1, October 20, 2020 (thanks to Breitbart):
A history teacher was beheaded on Friday after showing his students caricatures of Muhammad. Jean-Pierre Obin, former Inspector General of National Education, on Europe 1 Tuesday excoriated the “denial” and “ideological complacency” of “some teachers and officials” of National Education in relation to Islamism.
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In 2004, he published a report on Islamist entryism in schools. Sixteen years later, as a history teacher was beheaded on Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine for showing caricatures of Mohammed to his students, Jean-Pierre Obin does not take offense. This former Inspector General of National Education, author of How We Let Islamism Enter Schools (Éditions Hermann) believes that it is time to stop turning a blind eye. “We have in the National Education, in the administration and even in the classrooms some teachers and officials who are in ideological denial or complacency in relation to Islamism,” he said Tuesday on Europe 1 .
An “extreme left very present in National Education”
Jean-Pierre Obin makes a direct link with the extreme left. “It is this segment of the extreme left, very present in National Education, that thinks that attacking Islamism is attacking Islam. And [who think that] Muslim students are victims, one should not have the same attitude towards them as towards the other pupils.”
According to the former inspector general, “it was not until 2015”, after the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks, that some came to “realize to what extent the youth, and in particular the educated youth, were penetrated by this ideology of Islamism”. “A very large number of middle and high school students had disrupted the minutes of silence,” he recalls. “Since then, research and polls have given a much more precise overview of this penetration, this impregnation of part of Muslim youth by Islamist ideology.”
The first responsibility is “political”
Jean-Pierre Obin believes, beyond National Education, that “the first responsibility” in the assassination of the professor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Samuel Paty, is “political”. “It is that of ministers, governments who have known for twenty years and have pushed the dust under the carpet so as not to have to deal with this difficult issue, which divided the right and the left.”
After the terrorist attack on Friday, the ministry of Jean-Michel Blanquer is working on the development of advice and recommendations to be sent to all teachers and school heads in the event of a dispute or refusal to respect the scheduled minute of silence in homage to Samuel Paty.