Relax. All you Christians were in high school once, screaming “Jesus is Lord” and shooting your teachers with BB guns — weren’t you? After all, our learned superiors constantly tell us that all religious believers of whatever persuasion are equally susceptible to being “radicalized”? They couldn’t be lying to us, could they?
“France: Knife-wielding schoolboy screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ before shooting teacher with BB gun,” by Elsa Buchanan, International Business Times, October 13, 2015:
A 15-year-old high school student has been arrested after shooting his teacher with a BB gun and shouting “Allahu Akbar” in Châlons-en-Champagne, France.
The young boy had entered his high school carrying the gun, an airsoft grenade and a knife, with the intention of killing his literature teacher, with whom he had had an argument. The student was taken into custody.
“He told investigators that he had [worked on] a plan for one week, in which he was to stab his French professor and steal the car of his physics teacher under threat before ramming the car in the gendarmerie to die a martyr,” Christian de Rocquigny, Châlons-en-Champagne’s prosecutor, said.
According to De Rocquigny, the boy left his physics class on Monday morning to go to his literature teacher’s class “but changed his mind at the last moment”.
“He just gave his French teacher a sheet of paper containing a knife, then brandished a gun before returning to his physics class to shoot at the teacher,” the prosecutor added.
Recent radicalisation investigatedThe student then let all the students in his class go before phoning the police himself. Officers arrested him without difficulty before taking him into custody.
“During the hearings, he became very detached and only mentioned a punishment he had had in French class, and the fact that he did not want to be in general education but rather that he wanted to follow a vocational baccalaureate.”
The prosecutor added: “The police are also investigating the trail of his recent radicalisation.”
A psychiatric examination was scheduled for 13 October, with the teenager is likely to be brought before a judge….
A psychiatric examination? Ah, that’s it: he must be mentally ill! Jihad? Pshaw!

Muhammad Bear says
With all these Muslims mistakenly believing that they are encouraged to wage war on the infidel, I just think that we are very fortunate to have the politically correct Left around to explain the true Islam to us.
ich says
they are lucky the lefties exist
im sure if they didnt the average american would
go cowboy on them, and I dont blame them.
Kepha says
Bear–Yes, indeed. I was rather sad to see that even the often-sensible Jean Bethke Elshtain (_Just War Against Terror_) succumbed to the Western-liberals-know-better-than-“those-folks” mentality in places.
–ich: I suspect that if the lefties didn’t exist, not only the average American, but also the average Frenchman, German, Brit, or Scandinavian would probably get rough with the Muslims over the sort of incident we see here.
But please don’t fall for the Hollywood stereotype about cowboys. I’m not a man of the American West, but I’ve known a few folks of varying demographics from that part of the world, and I was told that my own grandfather made a handsome living peddling everything from luxury housewares to mining equipment everywhere from Kansas City to San Francisco back between the administrations of Presidents Chester A. Arthur and William Howard Taft. From such people, I learned that real cowboys weren’t (and aren’t) all that colorful.
Sure, a late 19th century cowboy could probably knock over any three of the male readers here in a fight. But that’s only because he made his living handling 500-pound steers on a daily basis. Chances are, if we were transported back to that time and place, we’d find the typical cowboy to be just another ordinary, basically law-abiding guy.
Even at the height of the Cattlemen’s Empire, very few people of Dodge City or Abilene ever saw a gunfight among cowboys; and you’d have a better chance of witnessing violent gun play in a solidly [Social] Democratic American city today than in the “Wild West” of the 1880’s and 1890’s. Actual cowboys did not usually pack handguns, which they scorned as impractical, but rifles, which were useful for protecting the precious cattle from four-legged predators, and at a range that guaranteed that the cowboy would not be attacked himself by a bear, cougar, or wolf. By my grandfather’s day (end of the 19th century), the cowboy was not even dangerous to the Indians, for at that point the Indians had been pacified, and might provide a few extra drovers if a cattle drive passed near a reservation. Indeed, the usual experience of cowboys at the end of a cattle drive in some “Wild West” railhead town would be that they’d sell the cattle, get paid, spend either some or much of their money, see a small number of their fellows spend a night in the local lockup for getting drunk and disorderly (fighting with fists rather than guns), and then they’d head for home.
There were indeed bandits in the Old West, and frontier justice might’ve been rather rough at times. Maybe that’s why rape, among other crimes, was much, much rarer then and there than it is now and here. It may also be why the “Wild West” produced so few criminals that they became household names, when the far more numerous perps of modern urban crime remain anonymous. But again, the bandit was someone for whom tending cattle was too rough, smelly, and low-paying.; so he would at best be a “former” cowboy. But somehow, the Dime Novel and Hollywood image of the largely mythical rootin’-tootin’-six-shootin’ “cowboy” has captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic.
Lia Wissing says
Surely islam is a mental illness or deficiency?
ICH says
wtf is a “vocational baccalaureate”
Not another way to appease them I hope
Westman says
In France that would be a skilled trade, non-college bound education; auto mechanic, carpentry, HVAC, plumbing, computer repair, (building clocks?), etc.
Don McKellar says
The poor little moslem has been watching too much violence on TV, no doubt. Pat him on the head and give him a cookie and a fresh new copy of the Koran — he’s probably worn his out.
Angemon says
Back when I taught, there was this 7th class where all students were uncompromising – they wanted to go to a different vocational baccalaureate (from IT to electrician). and they made no qualms about it They were highly uncooperative, to say the least. Around half the school year the school board decided they would have another electrician class next year (the choice was between that and something related to farming) and that most of them would be transfered to it, so we, the teachers, spent the rest of the school year trying to salvage whatever dignity we had left. None of them ever tried to attack any teacher, and they were kids who had been expelled, with great prejudice, from other schools for beating up other students. Thuggish as they were in appearance and demeanor, they at least were smart enough to keep their behaviour in check and keep their mind on the ball. Of course, they weren’t muslims – I’m certain that the prospect of the heavenly brothel that is the islamic paradise would be more than enough to drive some of them to do something similar to what this punk planned.
Jay Boo says
Germany has national identity card.
I might be wrong but I believe so does France (non-compulsory).
But, I have heard that the UK does not.
Beagle says
BB gun? Must be a moderate Muslim.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
A knife wielded but nobody was stabbed, an airsoft grenade, and a BB gun? No wonder he changed his mind at the last moment, he was humiliated at what he was doing, at what he’d become.
Maybe this Global Jihad thing ain’t so terrifying after all, it looks like the Moslems have gone pussy. And anyway, this couldn’t happen here in America, I don’t think we have Physics classes anymore, it’s been replaced in the curriculum by Sports Communications.
abad says
I attended a Roman Catholic high school.
No, we never had anything like that happen.
And no nuns that hit student wrists with a ruler, either.
But then this was the hip 1980’s……..
Bezelel says
,” screaming “Jesus is Lord” and shooting your teachers with BB guns ” Yes indeed, like all the Abrahamic faiths have their violent episodes. Those Crusaders ya know? The boy just misunderstands islam, Therefore it has nothing to do with islam and he was acting more like a Crusader. The question is, is a (sarc) necessary? It would if this were a CNN blog.
Linde Barrera says
To Angemon and Kepha- Interesting comments, thank you both for sharing.
Karen says
Well, that was certainly a flop, and after a whole week of planning. Talk about phoning it in. (Literally.)
My understanding is that vocational streams are quite available in Europe. Might have helped to talk to a guidance counselor first, before going jihad.
Karen says
“All you Christians were in high school once, screaming “Jesus is Lord” and shooting your teachers with BB guns ”
The image is in such stark contrast to the nature of Christ as to be laugh-out-loud funny! (Some of my co-workers are wondering about me.) Now, imagine how Jesus would react to such a student. I can see Him bear-hugging/head locking the young guy and saying, ‘knock it off, knuckle head! You’re not doing that in my name!!’