An eleven-year-old student at the Jean-Zay middle school in Valenence in southeastern France shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” during a tribute to teacher Samuel Paty. Paty was beheaded by Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov, an Chechen Muslim refugee, in October of 2020. Paty’s crime? He showed cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad in a class teaching about free speech.
“Allahu Akbar!” can roughly be translated as “God is most great!” It is commonly shouted by Islamic extremists prior to committing acts of terror.
School officials reprimanded the child and called his father about the incident. The 43-year-old father responded by supporting his child’s outburst.
The incident occurred on October 15 during an anniversary tribute to Paty, who was murdered on October 16 of 2020. On Monday, the situation intensified as the father arrived at the school to defend his son and threaten to burn down the school.
French police were alerted and took the 43-year-old father into custody. A search of the man’s home found several weapons, including a sword, an nunchaku (commonly referred to as nunchuks), radical Islamic Salafist literature, and 11,500 euros in cash. The father was reportedly referred for a psychiatric evaluation.
The Salafi movement is a branch of Sunni Islam that advocates a return to the traditions of early Islam. Included in the Salafi movement is Jihadi-Salafism, whose followers seek to overthrow supposedly apostate regimes.
The anniversary of Paty’s death appears to have stirred up many emotions in France. The French Ministry of National Education called for the tribute in honor of Paty and said that schools should use the incident as a way to teach children about dealing with sensitive issues and stressing how important freedom of expression is to the nation.
Islamists, on the other hand, used the anniversary to threaten to burn down schools and issue death threats to teachers.
At least two teachers in the southern French city of Marseille have received death threats that referenced Paty’s death and included pictures of Paty.
“In September, a couple of teachers received a photo of Samuel Paty in the mail, followed by a letter threatening their lives,” said Dominique Laurens, the Marseille prosecutor.
“The investigation is ongoing and at this stage, there is no evidence to link these facts to a course given by one of the teachers,” Laurens said.
“On behalf of the entire Southern Region, I send clear support to these two teachers, who are threatened with death by the barbarians,” said Renaud Muselier, president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
Meanwhile, the build-up to the next French presidential election, which will take place in 2022, continues on, with right-wing forces looking to oust establishment figure Emmanuel Macron from office. A new opinion poll shows commentator Eric Zemmour moving past Marine Le Pen in the race to see who will challenge Macron for the office.
Among other things, Zemmour has called for taking back the notorious Muslim “no-go” zones in the country, which have become common scenes of violence and of massive rioting. Zemmour has called for these zones to be “re-conquered by force.”
Last year, shortly after Paty’s beheading, France’s ambassador to Sweden declared that “France is a Muslim country.” A poll in the aftermath of Paty’s death showed that 79 percent of French citizens believed that Islamism had “declared war” on France.
Earlier this month, conservative politician Gilles Platret, the Mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, caught flak from many in the media for suggesting that Islamists were attempting an “ethnic cleansing” of France.
“What we see today in some neighbourhoods — and I will use a word that will necessarily make reactions around this table — I feel a kind of ethnic cleansing,” said Platret.
While the U.S. Department of Justice and the Biden administration are busy demonizing concerned parents who speak out against racist doctrines being peddled by left-wing school boards as “potential terrorists,” the people of France are dealing with the real thing.
If the Biden immigration doctrine — which appears to be “let everyone who might vote Democrat in, regardless of who they are” — isn’t stopped soon, what is now happening in France could happen in the United States.
