https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...ance-death-threats-daughter-school-abaya-ban/
“The prosecutor said the man would receive a “direct summons” and be placed under “judicial control.”
The father is still under arrest. One hopes he will be given a suitably long prison sentence for making those death threats. But even if he is behind bars, the principal now must look forward to years of round-the-clock police protection. There are even reports that he will resign and move elsewhere, for his safety. And the staff members at the school who have also been threatened with “decapitation and death”? What will happen to them?
The father’s threats to the principal were not subtle: “decapitation and death.” And since those threats were first made, the very same threats have been made by Muslims to other members of the school’s staff. Can the French state provide police protection for all of them? French authorities are justifiably alarmed, thinking of the fate of middle-school teacher Samuel Paty, decapitated with a cleaver by a Muslim from Chechnya for showing his pupils a caricature of Muhammad in a class on freedom of speech.
“The prosecutor said the man would receive a “direct summons” and be placed under “judicial control.”
The wearing of the abaya in institutions of the state, such as public schools—private schools are not affected — is being deliberately encouraged by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, apparently located in Turkey, who want to challenge the French principle of laicité. They have not succeeded; Macron’s government has remained firm in its determination to enforce the ban. And only 300 Muslim girls in public schools — out of more than a half-million nationwide — chose to wear the abaya the first day of school. And by Friday, the third day of school, there had been no further reports of girls having to be sent home because they came to school wearing abayas.
The ban does not discriminate against Muslims. Not just abayas and hijabs, but all clothing of a religious nature — including kippahs and crucifixes — is prohibited in French public schools.
There is no “oppression of Muslims” by the French state. In fact, Muslims have been treated with far too much solicitousness. The abaya ought to have been banned long ago, when the Jewish kippah and Christian crucifixes were banned in 2004, but for some reason — fear of a furious Muslim reaction — it had been allowed for twenty more years, until September 6, 2023.
That claim of widespread rape — 12 percent of all women in France — is meant to suggest that French women, with their come-hither clothing, are “asking for it.” And the best way to deal with that problem is for women in France to dress modestly, as Muslimas do, wearing the hijab and the abaya that the oppressive Macron government has now prohibited in public institutions.
The father is still under arrest. One hopes he will be given a suitably long prison sentence for making those death threats. But even if he is behind bars, the principal now must look forward to years of round-the-clock police protection. There are even reports that he will resign and move elsewhere, for his safety. And the staff members at the school who have also been threatened with “decapitation and death”? What will happen to them?
