How many Americans have followed the brouhaha in France over the Education Minister’s recent proposals to change the curriculum? I would think not many. But it is instructive what that young, pretty, not very experienced Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has proposed, and the reaction — overwhelming and furious — that her plans received. The Minister of Education in France sets the curriculum down to the set books that each child will read, and decides, too, what courses will be offered, and in what schools. Everything is top down, and there is very little difference in the courses offered from school to school.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who by parentage is half-Muslim, decided that it was time to change the curriculum. Out would be Latin, and Greek, and even German, though one would have thought that as a commercial language, the teaching of German would have been expanded, not eliminated. Of course those immediately effected were furious. It was pointed out that Latin and Greek represented not just classical antiquity, but European civilization, that without keeping up these two languages, the general tenor of French culture would suffer, and even the study of French would suffer, because Latin and Greek had contributed directly to the language, and the possibility of acquiring either of them was important to the country’s understanding of itself and its past.
No one sensible could disagree, and Najat Vallaut-Belkacem found herself the object of fury, scorn, and ridicule. It was not her only act of folly. She also wanted to replace, in the history curriculum, several subjects, including Medieval Christianity, or rather, not to omit them, but to make them available but not required. Who could object to Medieval Christianity as part of the history curriculum? What group of students could not bear to be taught about the Crusades?
And having replaced Medieval Christianity as a required subject, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem wanted to make Islam a required subject. She has backed down, but what she wanted to do is telling. She knew that in France there are now many students who object to learning about the Crusades, who object to learning about the cathedrals, who object to learning about medieval religious art and poems. These are the Muslim students. So why not exempt them from the requirement to study what has always been deemed an essential part of the French history curriculum? It would be as if a Secretary of Education in this country had decided that the period from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War no longer had to be taught, in order to make room for courses on “recent immigration to America.”
And then there was the course on Islam that would now be part of the curriculum. What did that mean? It meant that there would be jobs, ready-made, for Muslim teachers, on the theory that Muslims should surely be the ones most qualified to teach about Islam. Can you imagine what it would be like to be a French student sitting in a class on Islam, taught by a Muslim, and that student wanting to take issue with something the teacher said? He would be petrified to do so, especially if among his fellow students were Muslims.
There is not much more to tell about the proposal. She, Vallaud-Belkacem, has had to back down. It is not its failure to be adopted that counts. It is the mere proposal itself, and what it tells us about the state of modern France.
cs says
It is a competition really, so we can see who gets worse faster, either France or the UK, ah, and also Sweden, they are trying really hard to screw things up.
mortimer says
The French voted for the socialists. They can also vote for counterjihad candidates.
Lia Wissing says
Please France, for your own sake, wake up!
jayell says
“She knew that in France there are now many students who object to learning about the Crusades, who object to learning about the cathedrals, who object to learning about medieval religious art and poems. These are the Muslim students.”…..
So…why are they in France?
januk36 says
To introduce apart-heid ?
mortimer says
jayell wrote: “why are they in France?”
LE GRAND REMPLACEMENT! Socialist cultural Marxists want to REPLACE Europeans with compliant Third World ‘NOBLE SAVAGES’ who are used to dictatorship and will not speak up when tyranny is imposed.
Europeans are unworthy of socialism, because they believe in individual human rights.
Under socialism only the COLLECTIVITY has rights. In Islam only the UMMAH has rights….which is saying that ‘no one’ has any rights at all.
Uncle Vladdi says
Perfectly put!
Guy Macher says
Exactly. Succinct and precise. Go to the head of the class!
Linda Rivera says
Muslims are in France, Europe and Britain to live as parasites off our indigenous people and to CONQUER.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
“Half Muslim??” Isn’t that kind of like having “half a case of cancer?”
Jerry Jansen says
No, it would be like being half-pregnant.
mortimer says
She is behaving as a stealth jihadist.
RonaldB says
Yes, exactly. By sharia law, a mixed marriage must have a Muslim husband and the children are Muslim. So, she is Muslim by Muslim law, and would be considered an apostate if she declared herself to be of a different religion or formally renounced Islam. As it is, she seems to be doing yeoman’s work in dissolving the indigenous French culture through education, a primary objective of Muslim plans to spread sharia (see Steven Coughlin’s “Catastrophic Failure” ).
http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophic-Failure-Blindfolding-America-Jihad/dp/1511617500/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434815083&sr=8-1&keywords=catastrophic+failure
cs says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najat_Vallaud-Belkacem
She describes herself as a “non-practising Muslim”.[8]
There you go.
IQ al Rassooli says
non practising Muslim?
OXYMORON since one can either be a Muslim or an Infidel
She is the ultimate Stealth Jihadi using her best Taqiyah to SUBVERT and UNDERMINE French culture & education and make them SUBSERVIENT to Sharia compliance
The fault is NOT with her or with the Muslims in France
The fault is with the French, British, Scandinavian, Belgian, Dutch etc peoples for IMPORTING the virulent cancer of Islam through uncontrolled IMMIGRATION!
Pay up time is NOW
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Wellington says
As usual, IQ al Rassooli, I find myself in agreement with what you have stated.
Blitz2b says
Absolutely! How long will they keep the savages at bay? Five maybe ten years at most…
Muslims breed like mosquitoes while the indigenous French can’t be bothered with the responsibility of procreation. What else do you suppose will happen?
The only way to stop this madness is to declare war on Islam. Tell Muslims the truth about their horrid hateful ideology, only then will there be any hope for Europe.
voegelinian says
Yes, the “non-practicing Muslim” is the one that fools so many in the Counter-Jihad. At any rate, Hugh Fitzgerald has exposed her as, in fact, a practitioner of Stealth Jihad of the Pen and Mouth. And her claim to be “non-practicing” we must reasonably conclude is, among other flavors of Islamic deceit, muruna:
Muruna: the temporary suspension of Sharia in order that Muslim immigrants appear “moderate.”
http://islamexposed.org/multimedia-map/a-primer-on-islamic-deceit-taqiyya-kitman-tawriya-muruna-etc/
tilda says
She might have backed down for now, but it won’t be the last attempt. There will be further attempts in the future; by herself or by other/s.
Max Publius says
Quisling wasn’t half the quisling these quisling tax-subsidized administrators and politicians are.
“When treason prospers, none dare call it treason.”
Huck Folder says
The French have a word for it
Chamberlain
0bama
Quisling
Of course there are hundreds more like Stanley Baldwin, Camoron…
Richie says
A similar problem in the US in how many public schools have become centers of liberal propaganda indoctrination. Very insidious, the stealth Jihad of brainwashing childern while in school.
Once again Muslims demand everyone accomndate them. Here is a novel idea- if the Muslims in France despise European history and culture, then leave
Joseph says
@ Richie
I am glad someone else sees this problem in American schools. College is the final polishing of these leftist/liberal ideas. When did we stop teaching our kids to think for themselves and asking the three most important questions why, why, why. I never took the professors word for anything nor did I rely on the book that was handed to me for the course. In the end it was an eye opening experience for I saw the shit sandwich that they were trying to make us eat.
They call this generation “the smartest one yet”? I DON’T THINK SO! ! !
The most indoctrinated-YES
Smartest-NO
EYESOPEN says
Very well put Joseph!
Joseph says
@ EYESOPEN
Thank You. I do teach my kids to ask why ,why, why and not to trust only one source.
jewdog says
This is just a shot across the bow. As demographic changes continue in France, it won’t be long before Islam will be de rigueur for all students, and, as in all majority Muslim countries, France’s real past will be hijacked and submerged by its new Muslim identity.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
You’re right. But the descent will be fitful. The ruling elites of France are starting to wake up a little bit here and there. This is why France is the only country talking reality around the “negotiations” with Iran on letting the Persians set themselves up with nuclear tipped missiles. So expect some nasty exchanges in the nasty exchanges in the National Assembly, countered of course by denunciations by the news entertainers on the gubmint owned TV channels. There may even be a street protest or two as La belle France circles the drain ready to descend into irretrievable loss.
jewdog says
Very good – they are circling the drain. Flush twice, it’s a long way to complete dhimmitude.
AJLIVERPOOL says
As they say, “she’s already got form”.
Typical Muslim Brotherhood-style infiltration of government to push her pro-Islamist agenda.
http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/muslim-minister-in-french-government.html
Selected quote:
“Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the Moroccan-born minister for Women’s Rights in the French government, a “non-practising Muslim” who once said she felt “wounded like all the Muslims of France” when her political opponent Fillon made remarks about the spread of halal food, has called for Twitter to suppress tweets that don’t respect human rights and for the tweeters responsible to be prosecuted.”
Tom P says
Sad that such a pretty face has a completely worthless brain to go with it.
Angemon says
Indeed.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
She has backed down.
But people like this always keep coming. She’s collecting French taxpayer money, so why stop?
I remember a few years ago the NEA/AFT union brothers and sisters, globo-socialists all, forced students in a St. Paul middle school go through a 3-day lesson on the experience of being a Moslem… wearing Moslem garb. No mention, it goes without saying, was made of the truth of Islam, just the useful stuff like victimhood.
There is no reason for them to quit, somewhere along the line it got to the point where inculcation became permissable, even desirable.
Linde Barrera says
To Alarmed Pig Farmer- Happy Father’s Day if it applies to you. This is in response to your comment about the AFT/NEA union teachers that made a St. Paul middle school go through “3 days of what it is like to be a Muslim”. As a retiree member of the UFT in NYC, I would have never allowed any of my students to wear Muslim garb unless their parents gave an ok in writing, because parents can always opt out. It is one thing to learn about other cultures and religions and show pictures of, or actual costumes to, the students, or even for a teacher to be the model wearing the Muslim costume, but to insist that students wear it to get the feeling of being Muslim? No, that is where I draw the line. Where was the community school board? Where were the parents and the pastors/rabbis when this was being planned? I am also aware that Minnesota, your home state, is getting a substantial amount of Muslim refugees from Somalia, but not many Minnesotans seem to inquire as to the country of origin and the legal limit of the refugees coming in. Somalia is by far, one of the most corrupt Muslim nations on Earth, did you know? And also, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the one who decides how many Muslims come into your state or my state. Has that job title been annexed by the USA federal government for job classifications? Does the UNHCR chat on a regular basis with congressmen/women on this manuever? Trey Gowdy of So. Carolina is the chair of the Immigration committee. How come we never hear from his office? All of this is being done because OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) has both ears of the UNHCR! Who knew? My source for this news is RefugeeResettlementWatch,org. Peace.
Benedict says
Crack Pot
Walter Sieruk says
On the subject of the education minster’s proposal to make changes in the curriculum which would include a course the teaches about Islam in a positive slant. This is a part of a subtle strategy of achieving prestige and power for Islam which is called Stealth Jihad. This insidious scheme method is also know as Islamic Gradualism. This sly type of jihad for Islam has the same end goal as the violent and murderous militant jihad but by the different and subtle means. In some ways this stealth jihad is similar to the strategy found in THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden,until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you.”
mortimer says
The ‘Trojan Horse’ strategy.
eib4 says
I think all Muslims in the West must be compelled to learn and repeat Western Classics including the writing of St. Augustine & St. Thomas Aquinas, particularly Contra Gentiles. A refusal to do so should bar all Muslims from Western education and every Western university. So they hate the crusades? Let them found their own schools and get the hell out of ours. Now.
EYESOPEN says
Concur.
11B40 says
Greetings:
i get a bit of my daily TV news from the France24 broadcasts, primarily from their “The Debate” segment most often hosted by M. François Picard and this is the first that I’ve heard of this issue.
mortimer says
The French socialists and secularists have made a pact with the devil by kowtowing to Islam, but it’s turned around to bite them in the bum.
Charlie Hebdo was a socialist mag, but it didn’t stop the jihadists from attacking them.
French socialists need to realize they cannot stagemanage jihad.
particolor says
They are that far gone now that they may as well throw out all other books and have but one in the Classrooms !! “The Qur’an”
somehistory says
Young…maybe. “pretty”? not so much. The evil of islam is showing from her eyes and the set of her mouth.
She doesn’t want the muslim students, .or especially, the non-muslim students,.. to learn the truth about the Crusades….why they were and who started the fighting… she doesn’t want them learning about the work that went into the buildings of France and the work ethic…because it all shows just how bad, how evil, how worthless, islam is.
If the truth is told from the past, then it shines a light on the truth of today…that muslims start the fighting and won’t stop until they kill all who refuse to submit to the worship of their evil raper of children… or they are defeated by those who refuse to submit.
She’ll be back…unless the beast is killed before she can make another try.
EYESOPEN says
Astute Somehistory. Thank you.
Doug says
Man, is she hot!!! Time to cover up, sweetie, you are driving me to distraction.
Miro says
This will only get worse. Europeans must unite against barbarism or we shall all be forced to leave in Middle Ages again.
Guy Macher says
Muslim, half-Muslim, wannabee Muslim, none can be trusted. We will remove Muslims one-by-one if we are to save Western Civilization, that is to say civilization, or it will cease to exist. Gird thy loins!
particolor says
Mount thy Camel !!
Huck Folder says
Like mo, before his right hand possessed slave girls?
Women WIDOWED by him, before their husbands bodies were cold?
RodSerling says
I’m glad to see Hugh’s writings appearing on Jihad Watch again.
tilda says
Slightly OT: Looks as if Denmark now has a centre right government, with the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party now the 2nd largest party in parliament.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jun/18/denmark-general-election-2015-results-live
http://www.thelocal.dk/20150618/live-denmark-goes-to-the-polls
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/denmark/11685275/Eurosceptic-Danish-Peoples-Party-surge-in-general-election.html
Celtic says
They’re waking up it seems – a large thing to do for a country which does not allow it’s citizens to own firearms…
Jack Holan says
I would point out to the Minister of Education that children do not select curriculums that is what the Board of Education or some delegated authority is paid to do since they allegedly have the expertise by education to do so. What kind of nonsense is this that the children will decide. Next, where do you live? Europe! Therefore the core undercurrent/root languages should be congruous to the language of the country YOU live in France, French is spoken there. The 1600 year history of religious influence is primarily Christianity and very small degree Judaism. It was not Islam although Islam can certainly be taught as an additional elective. Courses are not taught by popular vote like or dislike but rather relevance to the Society these future leaders live in.
Ren says
Most muslims don’t want western values, they not only want islamic values, but they also want to impose them on the land they live in… that’s a classic and unavoidable.
Adam Mary says
Subversion by Muslims, homosexuals and pagans, whom do not want the truth known of the Crusades, Christianity, history or other things. God bless you… in name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Lioness says
That curriculum will be introduced again in a few years, maybe modified a bit, and eventually it will be adopted, just a matter of time. In France (and whole of Europe), as the Muslim population doubles itself with every new generation, more law makers, politicians and government officials will be Muslim and will agitate to introduce Islamic curriculum, laws and a way of life. In other words, Sharia is coming to a town near you.
R.C. says
This woman’s appearance is irrelevant–what the author thinks about her appearance is not relevant to the story. The author needs to keep his transparent libido out of his articles.
Joseph says
@ R.C.
What I think the author is pointing out is that her looks are a propaganda tool to try and sell her ideas. Kinda like when Hitler was coached on his posture, gestures and timing for his political speeches, he mesmerized the people. A male is not listening to what the speaker is saying when he is thinking about “boning” her. He will also be swayed with the idea that “evil” can’t come from a pretty face, so yes it is relevant to the WHOLE story.
Well, that is the way I see it.
Celtic says
Another example which shows, that we need to kick them out of Europe. Even the ones who are not wearing Jihabs are keen on changing the western culture – at least this politician.
A counter proposal : Get the fuck out of Europe
Michael says
1. Who put her in that position in the first place ?
2. Who can remove her and when ?
3. Do the majority of the French want her out or do they want her to continue making these decisions?
4. The choice is France to do what they want!!
cassandra says
The French loved the Nazis and welcomed them with flowers, they also love muslims. In my part of England we are seeing a massive influx of French: utterly arrogant and superior, as they flee the hell they have brought on themselves.