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.
rick says
French Government should post armed guides at schools. If it does not then each school – or district- should hire paid armed guards at the expense or at least partial expense of the government. It is unfortunate that this should be done but there is no other choice. If the government has to pay out increasingly large sums of money – real cash – for protection from Muslim fanatics – the reality of Islamic fanatics and their threat to schools and the public in general – will be better understood by the government. Also, the legislation should pass criminal laws applicable to those who openly threaten physical harm in the name of Islam to anyone but especially public schools.
bill says
Absolutely agree, but will it happen? The useful idiots will soon start shouting ‘islamophobia’. It should be made public that the term was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood precisely to prevent any critism of Islam
SC says
Expell the brats to protect your teachers and keep doing so. Let them fund their own schools and when they finish building them, deport everyone involved.
Barbara says
Why should Muslims be exempt from the laws of the country? Trouble makers need to have the law applied to them, regardless of why.
Threatening other people lives is against the law and should be charged. By terrorizing non Muslims they are bullying us to get their way.
Mike says
Because a lot of them foolishly think that they’re superior to all non-Muslims, and that their farts smell like a bouquet of flowers.
maria says
close all the muslim schools and deport the teachers to Afrika
Ian Senior says
Not respectful of French values and beliefs.
The best solution to overcome threats of violence and intimidation is to to remove the aggressor from France and Europe.
Basi says
Europe sucked up to these degenerates just to look good . Costs the bloody politicians nothing because they live protected. Decent hard working citizens live under the tyranny of these fanatical, ungrateful degenerates. The only way things will change is when a caring political administration comes into power and establish a simple solution to deport anyone who poses a threat to the honest citizens of a nation. Call it my dream
Pray Hard says
Deport all moslems. Problem solved.
maria says
Yes and no return. If they come back KILL THEM
Jim says
This whole so-called “religion” is a joke. Mohammad a prophet, another joke. Just a schizophrenic old man with pedophilia, murder and who knows what else. Send them all back to the desert and let them just kill each other!
tim gallagher says
Perfect summary of islam, Jim. It is a barbaric, vicious religious ideology and is totally incompatible with life in any civilised country which is now becoming more and more obvious in all our western countries these days as the Muslims build up their numbers and begin to show what complete barbarians so many of them are in endless different ways including these threats to the teachers. It’s always Muslims. I have never heard of, say, a Buddhist parent threatening teachers in this way. It is islam and your solution is correct. Throw them out…
Barbara says
I do not consider Islam a religion. It is a cult. The most vicious one possible.
Calling it a religion they get away with terrorizing everyone.
somehistory says
A “cult” is a religion. The cult members **worship** and obey some person who builds the cult around himself. Most cult leaders have some charisma which draws needy people, and he manipulates their thinking and emotions.
islam, by definition, is a religion. Evil in the extreme, and false to its claims.
islam is a religion in which its members commit crimes, such as extortion, which can be prosecuted by those unafraid to do so.
tim gallagher says
Barbara, I’d say that islam is a religion because it claims that the foul version of god, this vicious monster, allah, exists and Muslims worship this evil thing, allah, that they say is god. Any belief system that has some version of god is a religion I would say. I know what you mean though. Being given the status of a religion gives islam a protection from some idiots that it doesn’t deserve. I give it zero respect. To me, this Muslim version of god is a load of bullshit and islam is totally barbaric and evil. End of story. It can be a religion, on a par with the old Aztec religion, but being a religion, an evil religion, gains it no respect whatsoever from me. What a better world it would be if islam was wiped out. I see it as no better than Nazism. I’d love to see the religion, islam, and the political ideology, Naism, gone.
martin walden says
You got the right idea.
Dick Tracy says
The solution is easy: expel the students who make these threats, prosecute them and ultimately expel them from the country. And if we have to change our laws and/or conventions/treaties in order to enable this, so be it. By all means, let’s begin working towards those goals. The sooner the better.
OLD GUY says
Seems like protecting yourself and your own countrymen has been thrown under the bus. Now our WOKE leaders worry more about protecting the feelings of ILLEGAL migrants THEN OUR OWN CITIZENS WHO PAY THEIR SALARIES. WOKE UP people without law and order you have CHAOS.
Stop listening to the 24/7 political news media, they are peddling the selling of advertising for their media organization, NOT accurate news messages. Vote from your heart and belief system not from what someone else tells you. And remember no matter how you vote or your neighbor votes you are still neighbors and the ones who will help each other at times of need. GOD BLESS AMERICA Please.
Rick Smith says
Why do western nations need to see 1,000 October 7ths or 10 more 9/11s for us to understand that Islam is a direct threat to our civilization and way of life? In fact, since 9/11, there have been around 40,000 terrorist attacks by Muslims-what more evidence do we need to know we are dealing a religion of terror, hate, mass murder?
What’s even worse is that Islam isn’t a new fascist ideology that popped up recently like Nazism did 70 years ago. Islam has 1400 years of blood-soaked history and thousands of jihads waged against unsuspecting people like us and the result was the genocide of hundreds of millions of people, the destruction of countless civilizations, the impoverishment of millions and so on.
Are we really just going to sit around and wait till the cycle of killings of thousands or millions of non-Muslims starts all over again? We haven’t had enough evidence yet? We haven’t had enough death threats, bombings, stabbings, etc. from Muslims yet to make a conclusive judgment about this evil ideology?
The main problem is education-both in the establishment and the mainstream population…we’re not dealing with a group of bad actors in a largely peaceful religion…. but a religion of bad actors with a handful of peaceful people who don’t matter.
Just imagine if the tables were turned and a minority (but growing bigger/stronger) population of Christians were living in Islamic countries and threatening to behead Muslim teachers for showing photos of Christ for example…do we think Muslims would take that lying down?
They’d be lucky if they were rounded up the same day and deported…more than likely they’d be jailed, beaten and eventually executed.
Lucky for Muslims, us non-Muslims are not savages like they are…but still we need to be as intolerant towards their ideology as they are to ours. If new laws are needed for Islam specifically so be it..our authorities, including the military need to be allowed to go after Muslims with the gloves off.
Expulsion and deportation of these vicious students should happen right away. If any Muslim commits a crimes, they should get the harshest sentence and then thrown out on their azz right after with no appeals.
We should have a program of de-Islamization with the immediate closure of mosques/Islamic schools and so on. Then we need to focus on mass deportation for the rest of them. It’s not one or two bad apples, Islam and all its adherents are the problem. The only exception we should make is for those Muslims who have posed no threat, are willing to leave Islam and can have 3-5 non-Muslims vouch for them that they are no threat to us, the rest have to go.
Those Muslims who’ve committed serious crimes like murder and gang-rape, should face severe consequences including capital punishment. We’re dealing with the worst dregs of humanity and they don’t deserve the “kid’s gloves” treatment any more…but the same brutality they mete out to their victims.