In the French Utopia, Anti-Semitism is Flourishing - Giulio Meotti

by Giulio Meotti

Zitouni accuses the school of being riddled with "anti-Semitism and Islamism." Of Algerian origin, and a professor of philosophy, Zitouni wrote that he could no longer tolerate what he saw every day in the high school which he called "Islamic territory funded by the state."

France not only let Jewish children be shot in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse. It is now letting anti-Semitism grow in its state-funded schools. 

 

Far north, in France, a few minutes by train from the border with Belgium, we reach Lille. In Lille, there is the high school named Lycée Averroès, located on the second floor of a building boasting Flemish architecture, that houses the Islamic League of the North, a mosque and a Muslim bookstore. Upstairs, there is the prayer room reserved for women, and the Koranic school. It is the first Muslim private school funded by the state in France. 

This is not a madrassa, but an experiment of laicité (secularism), created specifically in response to the events of 1994, when a group of students in Lille were expelled from the public high school Faidherbe, after they had refused to remove their headscarf in the classroom. The school is symbolized by its name, that of the philosopher Averroes, who in the Middle Ages was the bridge between the Western and Eastern cultures. 

 

Now that school, the multicultural utopia, has been rocked by the resignation of one of his teachers, Sofiane Zitouni, who explained his reasons in an editorial in the newspaper Libération. Zitouni accuses the school of being riddled with "anti-Semitism and Islamism." Of Algerian origin, and a professor of philosophy, Zitouni wrote that he could no longer tolerate what he saw every day in the high school which he called "Islamic territory funded by the state." 

After the attack on Charlie Hebdo, Zitouni had written an article wondering if "many Muslims do not have a huge problem with humor". Students attacked Zitouni, calling him a "lackey of the enemies of Islam" and "blasphemous".

 

In his complaint in Libération, the teacher writes that "in twenty years of work as a teacher I have never heard so many anti-Semitic slogans coming from the mouths of students." 

Zitouni wanted to make known to his students the thought and work of the philosopher named after their school, Averroes: 

"I discovered that on the shelves of the school there were no books of the Andalusian philosopher, nor books about him. However, I found the works of the brothers Ramadan, popular in this school"  These are Tariq and Hani Ramadan, the Swiss Islamists connected with the Muslim Brotherhood. "One day I started a course on the philosopher Spinoza and a student asked me why [I am teaching about him], because this philosopher was Jewish" 

Another big problem with his students was: "My alleged Islamic orthodoxy", and the fact that his colleagues, observant Muslims, could perform their ritual ablutions in public toilets and prayers were officiated near the coffee machine.

Four years ago, a French history teacher in Nancy, Catherine Pederzoli, was suspended for breaching the principle of secularism and neutrality after the French education ministry concluded that she was teaching "too much" about the Holocaust. And many schools in France are avoiding the Holocaust and the State of Israel's history to avoid "offending" their pupils.

 

"Death to the Jews" graffiti, however,  appear on many school walls outside Paris and other French cities.

In Andalusia, which during the XIIth century was populated by Christians, Jews, Muslims and ruled by the Arabs, the development of a fundamentalist punitive sect who claimed to be the sole interpreter of Allah's word warned the Caliph, who tried desperately to control the situation by making some concessions to them: the public burning of books, the prohibition of teaching and the exile of Averroes, his former adviser. 

 

Now the reply is the famous lycée, once symbol of French multiculturalism, where anti-Semitism is flourishing. 

Islamic brainwashing takes place under our noses with the complicity of the European authorities. Do we really mean "never again"?

Giulio Meotti

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16473#.VN-LFi6zchQ

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