It’s unlikely that this trial will lead to any discussion of the larger issues involved, concerning the freedom of speech and the extent to which a radically intolerant group can and should be tolerated. Yet that is the discussion that France, and the West in general, needs to have.
“French pupil’s father to go on trial for spreading lies that led to teacher’s Islamist beheading,” by Kim Willsher, Observer, November 3, 2024:
It was a killing that started with a lie. In October 2020, an Islamist terrorist tracked down and decapitated professor Samuel Paty as he left school on the last day before half-term holidays.
In the days preceding his murder, Paty, 47, who taught geography and history, had been the subject of an intense campaign of online harassment sparked when a 13-year-old student claimed he had discriminated against his Muslim pupils during a class on moral and civic education.
The girl told her father Paty had instructed Muslim students to leave the classroom at the Bois-d’Aulne secondary school at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the Paris suburbs while he showed students caricatures of the prophet Muhammad from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
In truth, the girl was not in Paty’s class that day and had made up the story to cover the fact she had been suspended from school for bad behaviour.
Paty had used the images as part of an ethics class to discuss free speech laws in France and the question of “dilemmas”. He posed the question “to be or not to be Charlie?”, referring to the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag used to express support for the paper after a terrorist attack on its offices in January 2015 that killed 12 people.
But Paty had not ordered any children to leave the room – instead he had told them they could turn away if they thought they would be offended by the images.
The teenager could not have known that the story she told her father would spark a chain of events that would lead an 18-year-old Chechen, Abdoullakh Anzorov, to travel 100km (62 miles) from his home in Normandy to kill the teacher after her furious father posted the lie on social media.
On Monday, the father, Brahim Chnina, will be one of eight adults – seven men and a woman – on trial in connection with the murder. Chnina is accused of association with a terrorist organisation after allegedly launching a social media campaign against Paty, including publishing videos online attacking Paty and designating him as a target by giving precise information about his identity and place of work. Prosecutors say Chnina was in contact with Anzorov nine times before the killing. He has denied the charge….
Hugh Fitzgerald says
He started the murderous ball rolling. He repeated the false charges directed at Samuel Paty, positing them on-line for the world’s Muslims to whip themselves into a frenzy about. He should be given a life sentence.
Mike says
The same kind of bullshit often occurs in certain Muslim countries such as Pakistan.
Someone makes up a totally false rumour, especially against someone in a minority (such as a Christian or a Hindu), and then the Islamist rabble goes wild, and inflicts unrestrained vengeance against the falsely accused person and their minority community as well, outside the law.
gravenimage says
Yes, Hugh, Mike, and John–this is standard operating procedure for Muslims inciting murder against Infidels or “insufficiently Islamic” Muslims.
James says
Bury his ass in jail & throw away the key
Bexarkat says
It cannot be! A Muslim lies? What is this world coming too??
somehistory says
Using American Law, one could argue that he ‘drove the murderer to the scene of the crime, making him an accomplice.’
Like a get-away driver is just as guilty as the criminals who rob a bank.
This ghoul loaded the gun and pointed it. The gun discharged and the bullet hit the target.
Hang him high. Hang all involved. And don’t allow the girl to ever enter another school for any reason.
Parents who lie and teach their children to lie, should not be surprised when the children lie to them.
Larry Estavan says
This story is one of the main reasons I am sounding the alarm over CAIR’s practice of using the TV to incite people against an individual and his family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wuDb2Z-810
If CAIR isn’t stopped from weaponizing the TV it is inevitable that we will see an American version of Samuel Patty
somehistory says
As long as they have been trying to accomplish that, it’s a wonder it has not yet happened here. With the increase in the number of mozlums, it’s probably not far in the future.
the tv stations will share culpability.
gravenimage says
France: Muslim father goes on trial for spreading lies that led to jihadi beheading teacher for blasphemy
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Glad at least that he is being tried. But I very much doubt this will be the end of this savagery in France or the rest of the West.
SC says
Lets look at the possibilities.
Macron justice “you really should not have said naughty taqiyya but dont worry heres your graduation certificate because of stress”
Sharia justice.Cut her tongue out and spray her face with acid.
I know which she deserves.
gravenimage says
Sharia would never punish anyone for lying about infidels to harm them. This is perfectly Islamic.
SC says
I Was not saying islam would do anything just comparing the alternatives. IMHO no corporal or death penalty means we are worrying about other groups opinion more than protecting the nation. Islam cares nothing for anyones opinions. I would like to say their rules are absolute but bribery works there too.
You conspire to cause a death your own life should be forfeit. You rape a child you should be peeing through a plastic tube until you die. That is deterrence. Call it going biblical whatever. Punishment should always fit the crime and be severe enough that others consider the consequences before an action.
Sick Of It says
Like minded men,men who know what needs doing,is what the West needs now.
Les says
Even if someone had shown a picture of their prophet, it should be down to their deity to enact punishment. Their god seems very weak and ineffectual.
Donovan Nuera says
It’s also odd that there is more anger directed wrongly towards those who critique Charlatan Mohammad than this alluhhhhh guy who is supposed to be a god……
Girl needs to be deported…. or forced to polish the tombstone of Paty every day for 50 years.
gravenimage says
She would probably just rejoice over an Infidel she had caused to be murdered.
somehistory says
That other trial….the murder of the little ten year old by her father, step-mother, etc. and they flew to paksitan to get free, but back in UK
“Sara Sharif’s stepmother was the ‘true villain’, father claims”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sara-sharif-s-stepmother-was-the-true-villain-father-claims/ar-AA1tz6EL?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=b927c3e6bcdb47ac84d5482fc955a99a&ei=27