Amy Mek
An art class at Jacques Cartier School in Issou, west of Paris, has sparked a significant controversy. On December 7, 2023, a teacher presented the 17th-century painting “Diana and Actaeon” by Italian painter Giuseppe Cesari to her sixth-grade students. This led to threats and a climate of fear reminiscent of recent violent Islamic reactions in France to perceived insults of Islam.
The painting, a piece that is part of the Louvre’s collection, depicts the Greek myth where hunter Actaion accidentally discovers goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing. This scene, while celebrated in the art world and depicted by artists such as Titian and Rembrandt, ignited anger among Muslim students. Their parents quickly filed complaints and circulated accusations of ‘Islamophobia’ against the teacher on social media. The Muslim students and their parents falsely claimed that the presentation of the famous painting was an intentional provocation.
In response, the entire staff at Jacques Cartier School united in solidarity and refused to work the following day. This action reflects deepening concerns over educators’ safety and freedom of expression.
Amidst this escalating situation, the teaching staff at Jacques Cartier School have been sounding the alarm about increasing violence among students for some time. Core values of the republic, such as freedom of expression and secularism, are increasingly being disregarded by Muslim parents. The controversy surrounding the painting has become a tipping point, as highlighted in a joint letter from the staff, citing a rise in aggressive behaviors among students. These concerns are not without merit, especially in the shadow of a recent harrowing incident: just two months prior, a professor at a high school in Arras, northern France, tragically lost their life to an attack by an Islamic terrorist. climate.
Sophie Venetitay, General Secretary of the Snes-FSU secondary school teachers’ union, expressed her concern about the growing sense of threat and danger among teachers. This incident resonates with the broader national context, where individuals have faced deadly and violent attacks for upsetting Muslims by not following Sharia laws in all things.
The Minister of Education had to intervene
The situation at Jacques Cartier School escalated to the extent that it necessitated intervention from France’s Education Minister, Gabriel Attal. In response to the unfolding crisis, Minister Attal made a decisive visit to the school on Monday to address the mounting tensions. During his visit, he acknowledged that some students had retracted their earlier accusations of the teacher’s alleged racist behavior and issued apologies by Friday. Emphasizing the seriousness of the situation, Minister Attal announced that disciplinary proceedings would be initiated against the students involved in making the dangerous false claims. Further, in a move to restore order and ensure the well-being of the school community, he revealed plans for the school to receive additional staff dedicated to supervising and supporting the school children.
The recent events at Jacques Cartier School bring to mind the harrowing incident involving Samuel Paty in 2020, underscoring the severity of such situations. Just days ago, six teenagers were convicted for their role in Paty’s beheading outside his secondary school near Paris. The students had helped identify him to the Islamic killer, following accusations of blasphemy from Muslim students for showing Charlie Hebdo’s satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. This act was further inflamed by dangerous misinformation spread by a Muslim student, her father, and an Imam, which incited anger in the Islamic community and ultimately led to Paty’s tragic death. The beheading of Paty highlighted the grave risks faced by those who dare to engage in open discourse about Islam.
France’s Struggle for Freedom of Expression in the Face of Islam
Islamic supremacists have put all of France and the rest of the free world on notice: if you insult Muhammad, Islam, their holy books, or even fail to consider Islamic law (Sharia) in all things, they will harm you.
In France, accusations of alleged Islamophobia by the left and Muslims have resulted in citizens being slaughtered, living in hiding, losing their careers, and living every day of their lives with targets on their backs.
As reported at RAIR Foundation USA, the tactics of a joint effort between the left and Islam has a name: the Red/Green Axis: Communists and Muslim organizations, such as The Muslim Brotherhood, have a long history of uniting to destroy their common enemy: those who believe in sovereignty and individual freedom.” To achieve their own goals, they use one another until their goals are achieved, and only at that time will they “turn on one another and, in the end, fight to destroy the other.”
After the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Muslim terrorist attacks rocked France, any writings or words critical of Islam made anyone a target for intimidation campaigns and even assassination attempts. Many French politicians, media, and businesses fearing for their lives respond with self-censorship and submission to Islamic norms.
Since the Hebdo attacks, the magazine survivors have remained under police protection, from Laurent Sourisseau, the publishing director and majority owner of Charlie, to survivor Zineb el Rhazoui, a French-Tunisian intellectual and journalist. Philippe Val, the former director of Charlie Hebdo who decided to publish the Mohammed cartoons in 2006, also remains under police protection.
French teachers, politicians, LGBT activists, cartoonists, clergy, movie stars, academics, intellectuals, novelists, writers, and journalists, among others, have been threatened and/or targeted for death because Republic’sto say something that upsets a Muslim.
In 2020, French schoolteacher Samuel Paty was beheaded after the father of one of his female Muslim students and an Imam ran an online campaign against him for blasphemy against Muhammad. Paty showed students a cartoon by Charlie Hebdo during a class discussion about the Islamic attack. Investigators found the men’s smear campaign led to an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim refugee beheading him outside the school.
As previously reported at RAIR, since February 2021, Didier Lemaire, a teacher for twenty years in France, must live under 24-hour police protection. Also, he had to leave his profession after his life was threatened for honoring the memory of the beheaded history teacher, Samuel Paty, and defending the Republic’s values. Instead of denouncing the threats of violence against the philosophy teacher, Ali Rabeh, the Muslim mayor of Trappes, further incited those threatening his life.
In March 2020, two University Professors at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in eastern France had to be placed under 24-hour police protection after being smeared as “Islamophobes” and “fascists.” The teachers’ lives are under threat after an Islamo-leftist student group, the National Union of Students of France (UNEF), led a dangerous campaign against the professors for simply trying to question the concept of “Islamophobia.”
Since January 2020, a French gay teen girl, ‘Mila,’ has been threatened with murder, rape, and torture by Muslims for several years after criticizing Islam. Mila has had to live under 24-hour police protection. According to her lawyer, she receives about 30 hate messages a minute.
French philosopher and journalist Eric Zemmour has lived under police protection since the attack on Charlie Hebdo. “Two policemen follow him wherever he goes — including to court, where Muslim organizations tried to defame him and his work by accusing him of “Islamophobia” to silence him,” reported Gatestone.
Michel Houellebecq, author of the novel “Submission,” has lived under the police’s protection since he published his last novel in 2015. Frédéric Haziza, a radio journalist and author for the magazine Le Canard Enchaîné, is also under the police’s protection.
According to Gatestone, Mohammed Sifaoui, who lived undercover in a French cell of al Qaeda and wrote the book Combattre le Terrorisme Islamiste (“Combat Islamist Terrorism”), lives under police protection. His photo and name appear on jihadi websites next to the word murtad (“apostate”).
The attacks on Charlie Hebdo did more than take lives; they imposed a shroud of fear over French society that had emboldened jihadis. This fear, perpetuated by both Islamic supremacists and their left-wing allies, seeks to enforce a culture of submission – a term that is, incidentally, the literal meaning of ‘Islam.’ The overarching goal is clear: to compel global acquiescence to Sharia, whether through force or voluntary conversion.
Islamic attacks, regrettably, have become an alarmingly common phenomenon amid the challenges of mass illegal migration. With Muslims now comprising 10% of its population, France has become the primary Islamic country in Europe. According to the Gatestone Institute, Islam is not only the second-largest religion in France but also its most actively practiced. In this context, France’s future, especially under open borders, appears increasingly perilous for non-Muslims.
Vlad Tepes
It is much less costly to expell them all from France. We need to do the same. All Western Civilization must expell all that refuse to assimilate(90% or so). Much too dangerous and much too expensive to coddle these retard psychopathic monsters. Give them a bag of pork rinds, and a swift kick in the ass!
Obviously this type of behavior is accepted in Europe. Islam is winning.