France: Muslim Mayor Incites Jihadis Threatening Teacher With Samuel Paty Style Death (Video)

Didier Lemaire, a teacher for twenty years in the French city of Trappes, must live under 24-hour police protection. In addition, he must leave his profession after his life was threatened for honoring the memory of the beheaded history teacher, Samuel Paty, and for defending the values of the Republic. Instead of denouncing the threats of violence against the philosophy teacher, Ali Rabeh, the Muslim mayor of Trappes, further incited those threatening his life. 

Lemaire became a target after writing an open letter in L’Obs [translated below] to his fellow teachers condemning the violence taking place due to the Islamization of his school, his city, and the whole of France. The letter by Lemaire is titled, “Open letter from a teacher from Trappes: ‘How to compensate for the State’s lack of strategy to defeat Islamism?'”

It is important to note that Didier Lemaire identifies himself as “center-left”. As reported by Gates of Vienna, secularism (laïcité) in France is a progressive institution. Therefore, Islamization which attacks and undermines laïcité, should be widely denounced by the Left. Generally speaking, however, this is rarely the case. Mr. Lemaire is a courageous exception to that rule.

Lemaire published his letter on November 1, two weeks after the decapitation of Samuel Paty – the professor who was slaughtered by an Islamic migrant after he had shown his students a Charlie Hebdo cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.  “It was addressed to teachers,” he explains. “It was a call to protect our students from Islamist pressure, which continues to grow in some neighborhoods.”

In Lemaire’s letter he describes the “progression of a community influence” in the city and points to a “lack of state strategy to defeat Islamism”.  Muslim residents in Trappes where the teachers school is located comprise more that 50% of the population. The suburb in the west of Paris of about 32,000 inhabitants has been labeled by law enforcement as a breeding ground for jihadis.

Several of Lemaire’s students were very angry that he chose to publish his article publically. “In one of my classes, the reactions were very hostile” , stated the professor.” The students asked me why I wrote a letter against them. I explained to them that I wrote a letter for them, to protect them.”

Hostility then spread throughout Trappes, “the police commander explained to me that Trappes was in turmoil, that the whole town was discussing this letter,” reported Didier Lemaire. “Many were hateful against me, accusing me of Islamophobia, racism, stigmatization of this population. These attacks, after the assassination of Samuel Paty, are a way of designating me as a target.”

The islamic mayor of the Trappes, Ali Rabeh, further inflamed the situation when he went to Lemaire’s school without permission and distributed leaflets blaming the teacher for the threats he was receiving. Furthermore, the far-left mayor smeared Lemaire and called him a liar. The French elected official from Morocco also accused Lemaire of being “Islamophobic and racist”. Samuel Paty received similar slanderous and incendiary treatment by Police days before his beheading when they interrogated him for “thought crimes” instead of offering him protection.

Since then, the philosophy professor has lived under police protection and must be escorted while at school. “When entering and leaving the establishment, the police accompany me and check that I am not being followed by a car. The entrance to the school is secure.” 

Lemaire implored his colleagues to also speak up about the dangers they are facing. “All teachers who are living this situation like mine should speak up and say what is happening in France,” he said. “Teachers live in fear. One in two teachers is censoring themselves.”

In a press release, the teachers of the Lycée de La Plaine de Neauphle in Trappes gave their support to Didier Lemaire,

“Our colleague Didier Lemaire has exposed himself personally to defend our students against the grip of radicalism, the grip of which we regularly perceive the echoes. The sincerity of his commitment is beyond doubt for us who have worked with him on a daily basis. “

Watch the following interview with Didier Lemaire conducted on France’s Sud Radio.

Below is the open letter from Didier Lemaire, as published by L’Obs:

On the eve of a new school year, grieving the death of Samuel Paty, Didier Lemaire, professor of philosophy at Trappes (Yvelines), calls for resistance in the face of the Islamist threat.

by Didier Lemaire
November 01, 2020

Didier Lemaire has been a professor of philosophy at Trappes for twenty years. As early as 2018, with Jean-Pierre Obin, Inspector of National Education and the author of a report on the attacks on secularism at school, he wrote a letter to the President of the Republic asking him to act urgently to protect his students from the ideological and social pressure exerted on them.

Today, he asks himself how teachers could compensate for the absence of a state strategy to defeat Islamism.

Dear fellow teachers,

A teacher, our colleague, died simply for teaching the principles that are the foundation of our republic and our history: freedom of thought and its corollary, freedom of expression.

Through him, these assassins targeted all the teachers who every day pass on this part of themselves that others have also passed on to them. This part which is the best part of ourselves because it makes us unique beings open to all other human beings.

Thought, freed from the fear of authority, ignorance, obscurantism, illusion and imprisonment in certainty, is indeed the most personal part of ourselves, because first of all it depends on us to build our judgment. In a society where we must think like others, without having the right to doubt and dialogue, no one can become himself.

But becoming a free individual is only possible under two conditions: a state based on the rule of law that prevents any community from confiscating the individual’s freedom by imposing a way of being and thinking, and a school that prepares every man to become a citizen by transmitting a humanistic, scientific, artistic and philosophical culture.

Yet the first of these conditions no longer exists in many neighborhoods. As a philosophy professor at Trappes for the past twenty years, I have witnessed the progression of an ever-stronger communitarian hold on consciences and bodies.

The year I arrived at the high school, the synagogue in Trappes was in flames and Jewish families were forced to leave. After the killings of 2015 and 2016, I became involved in preventive actions, notably through theater and meetings with historians and sociologists specializing in manipulation.

Noting that my efforts were coming up against forces beyond my control, in 2018, together with Jean-Pierre Obin I wrote to the President of the Republic to ask him to act urgently to protect our students from the ideological and social pressures exerted on them, pressures that were gradually cutting them off from the national community. Unfortunately, no effective action was taken to curb this phenomenon.

There are currently 400 S-file “radicalization” subjects in Trappes, who are freely roaming around, not counting the terrorism files. And our students live in a schizophrenic situation where the conflict of loyalties becomes unavoidable for them.

Exhausting the enemy

Today, it is the school and freedom that are under attack. Not only by one man, the murderer. The assassin is only the armed wing of a project carried out by thousands of ideologues who, like the Nazis in the past, maintain the sentiment of victimhood in order to incite hatred and prepare the way for action. These ideologues are by no means “separatists”: they do not simply want to remove populations from the national territory, they want to bring down the Republic and democracy and their heart, the school.

Their strategy was conjectured after 9/11 in Al-Souri’s book (whose outline was explained by political scientist Gilles Kepel, who has been living for years under judicial protection).

It consists, by multiplying acts of terror, “the thousand cuts”, of exhausting the enemy, too powerful for a frontal war. To do this, these ideologues use the quest for religious purity as the Nazis once used the quest for racial purity to present these killings as necessary and noble acts.

Membership in humanity then appears to be confined to the one “pure” group, the other to be eliminated. It is by exacerbating the feeling of humiliation among poorly-integrated populations and by making this religious purity sparkle that they push young losers, often delinquents and cut off from society, to hate France and the French people.

At the same time, they neutralize any awareness of the danger by playing on the bad conscience of the “progressives”, flirting with them under the guise of fighting against “racism”, “injustice” or “police violence”.

By saturating the public space with their emblems and practices, which are nevertheless signs of crimes against humanity, starting with the reduction of women to slavery, by infiltrating schools, universities, grandes écoles, the local and national political sphere, by spreading everywhere the double discourse and the injunction to “accept the other in his difference”, they paralyze any willingness to respond to these killings with anything other than words, candles and flowers.

This ideological war allows them to conquer legitimacy by perverting our ideals, by emptying them of their meaning. Some of them now occupy important positions, on the radio, in the cinema or even within the Government itself. They manage to pass themselves off as bulwarks against fanaticism while working in concert with ideologues who want to destroy our culture. Today we find them capable of influencing student unions, teachers, so-called secular parents’ associations and political parties that no longer hesitate to promote their anti-Semitism.

How to teach?

Hence, each time a massacre occurs, the state of stupefaction in public opinion. However, these killings obey a logic and a progression. They are rigorously carried out according to the same modus operandi: blind, dehumanized killing, entrenchment and final confrontation in order to die “as a martyr. Their progression proceeds by extension and intensification.

The first attacks targeted Jews, both adults and children. (They were preceded by about fifty attacks on synagogues from January 2000 to June 2001 that were not taken seriously, as here in Trappes). In the same year, the army was also targeted. Then it was other representatives of the state, police officers, and representatives of culture and other religions, French youth, and henceforth, any French person anywhere in the country. The attack on the school was a foreseeable objective because it had been declared since at least 2015.

We are at the beginning of a war of terror that will spread and amplify because a large part of our fellow citizens prefer not to see that it is our heritage that is threatened. Recognizing it would mean having to defend it with courage.

Samuel Paty had that courage. No doubt because he cherished our heritage. But he was not protected by the institution that underestimated the threat, faithful to the evasive conduct of our political representatives and the majority of our citizens.

And today we can only ask ourselves about the future of our profession. How can we teach languages, arts, sciences and general culture to children who are subjected, from a very early age, to the phenomenal social pressure of these ideologues? Should we continue to act as if our students were not themselves subject to this pressure?

How much longer will we be able to exercise our profession of transmission if the State does not fulfil its mission? Can we teachers compensate for the lack of strategy of our representatives to overcome this deadly scourge?

Didier Lemaire

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the following video translation,