This cowardice and impulse to surrender in the face of jihadist intimidation and threats is pandemic in the West.
“‘We are all teachers’? Revealing the school emails preceding Paty’s beheading,” by Giulio Meotti, Arutz Sheva, December 9, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
“Je suis enseignant”, we are all teachers, says the slogan brandished after the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine for showing the cartoons of Mohammed during a course on freedom of expression.
A Le Monde investigation revealed a less edifying reality.
There is the support of the principal and many parents, but also the many criticisms by the teachers who attacked Paty.
The newspaper accessed Paty’s and the school’s emails. Reading them, the life of a middle school on the outskirts of Paris emerges, traumatized by a story that everyone believed would soon be forgotten.
These are the emails from the week before the murder. There is the support of the principal and many parents, but also the many criticisms by the teachers who attacked Paty.
It is the story of Western cowardice in facing Islam.
Discussions begin on Thursday 8 October, two days after Paty showed Mohammed’s caricatures. “The situation has worsened”, the principal writes to Paty: “An individual threatened to bring Muslims to the college.”
Paty replies: “The absurdity of the situation is comical!”. The teacher sees the accusations, the hatred: “It is malicious gossip,” he writes. “I deconstruct the Islamist arguments. There is no blasphemy because the Republic is secular “.
Then the teacher surrenders to the hate campaign: “I will no longer have sessions on this topic”. The principal writes to the faculty: “I think I can say that Paty has had a difficult week and that it is important that he can count on each of us.” She calls for a joint response from the teachers to protect their colleague, building a wall against intimidation.
Paty gets messages of support from parents. But contrary to the wishes of the principal, no solidarity from the teaching staff. “I feel the need to say that I don’t support our colleague,” writes a teacher to the principal. “I refuse to be complicit with my silence. This situation alters the bond of trust that we try to strengthen with the families who have chosen public school and, given the context in which it takes place, endangers the entire community “. So it’s Paty who puts everyone in danger.
Another teacher attacks him in even more petty terms: “Our colleague not only failed to serve the cause of freedom of expression, but he provided arguments to the Islamists and worked against secularism by making it look like intolerance and committed an act of discrimination. My ethics forbid me to be an accomplice ”….
Crusades Were Right says
STUPIDITÉ * MALHONNÊTETÉ * LÂCHETÉ
The REAL slogan of the 21st century French Republic.
gravenimage says
I hope not…
gravenimage says
France: Emails before beheading of teacher for showing cartoon show that his colleagues didn’t support him
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Just sickening cowardice–but this does not surprise. I *hope* the later widespread support for Samuel Paty shows a change of heart and stiffening of the spine–we’ll see.
Westman says
And a great deal of ignorance. Those cowardly teachers fell for Muslim and government insistence that violent jihadis are not real Muslims until Paty was assassinated. Now they know better and the honest ones will carry guilt.
Islam lies to itself about its creation of violence. It’s like an octopus with Body Integrity Dysphoria, the main body disowning its violent jihadi arms.
Hoi Polloi says
We can hope.
Hoi Polloi says
Winston Churchill — ‘You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.’
gravenimage says
Grimly apt quote, Hoi Polloi.
Mauricio says
“This cowardice and impulse to surrender in the face of jihadist intimidation and threats is pandemic in the West.”
This is a REAL pandemic, not like the Covid-19 pandemic…
Eleanor says
Sad but true, Muslims are a protected species in UK and Europe, and actually, in all other Western countries. We need the answer as to why this should be? The answer is obvious but most of the native populations of these countries are totally oblivious, or wilfully ignorant, which will be the downfall of them all.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Before we judge people, let ask ourselves what we would have done in their place (?)
Princess says
I agree. That’s why politicians should be the role models of courage, but the overwhelming majority are not. They can afford to express their opinions because they have security protection 24/7. What can a regular peaceful person already do against such violent aggression, unless he/she is willing to become a martyr? That’s why politicians should step up to the cause. It’s their duty.
Hoi Polloi says
I certainly considered before posting that comments are easy from one’s armchair. But those quotes didn’t arise from fearful silence, rather, from active disavowal. And, absolutely, if we cannot expect politicians, who choose to ask that they be installed in visible positions as official voices with armed protection, we need new ones.
gravenimage says
Lavéritétriomphera–with all respect–it is one thing not to come forward out of fear; it is something else again for them to criticize this brave man for daring to stand for freedom of speech.
Hoi Polloi says
“bond of trust” with murderers? Little wonder I see so many teachers whose hobby seems to be decrying the quality of families who have “chosen public school.” Can’t have it both ways.
“My ethics….” Those are ethics?
He is to blame for their “intolerance?”
He failed at “freedom of expression?”
“Provided arguments”…? So now you’re saying those people stick to arguments? Proved you wrong there, too. Again.
“Our colleague…” In what sense were you in league with Paty?
“worked against secularism”…By providing secular perspectives?
The decapitator’s veto, a phrase RS has passed on to us from, I believe, Mark Steyn, has many justifying their actions with language that shows us all who they really are.
mortimer says
The conclusions that we must derive from the murder of Samuel Paty are 1) that WE ARE ALL ON THE FRONT LINE and 2) that ISLAM IS AT WAR WITH OUR ENTIRE CULTURE.
Unless the West unites across the board (teachers, laborers, bureaucrats, publishers, politicians, clergy) we will lose to Islam which is united substantially for the forced imposition of Sharia law.
If we do not firmly say ‘NO’ to Sharia and keep saying it, Islam will erode all Western values and force the West to submit to Sharia totalitarianism.
gravenimage says
+1
Giacomo Latta says
”Our colleague not only failed to serve the cause of freedom of expression …”
Is that still your take ”another teacher” or have you learned something in a rather soft way compared to the way Mr. Paty learned it?
OLD GUY says
Intimidation is the strength of the islamic violence to make other societies bend to their will. It seems to work when our leaders don’t have the stones to stand up against these thugs. Islam is the typical bully that will keep pushing it’s crap as long as no one stands up and kicks its ass.
underbed cat says
If the subject of freedom of speech was the goal, and drawings are so offensive maybe the words from the” book”, that is full of verses that give unpeaceful obligations should be read to give the students a understanding that Isis is not peaceful due to the doctrine they follow. The govenment of France has to understand sharia laws, and all words that have double meaning, like the word “terrorist”,or infidel . I don’t know how old his students were, it seems that France is in lots of danger from the students and parents and local imams….and years of accepting refugees of war, that are really traveling to change the population of France, that came to eventually create sharia law that is war against France. Until they can get a force to deal with this danger maybe they have to stop migration and stop building safe spaces for this to be warfare doctrine to be taught. That might ring a bell!