The West is going to have to decide: will it uphold and defend the freedom of expression, or surrender to Sharia blasphemy laws and violent intimidation? In Belgium, it looks as if authorities are already opting for the latter. And Belgium is not alone. In Sharia Sweden, police hunted for people who burned the Qur’an in a no-go zone with large Muslim population. When the freedom of speech is a dim memory, historians (if there are any) will be able to look back at incidents like this one to see how all was lost.
“Belgian teacher suspended over Prophet Muhammad cartoon,” DW, October 30, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The teacher, from a school in Brussels’ Molenbeek district, gave students the opportunity to look away. Emotions are running high in neighboring France after the beheading of another teacher over a similar incident.
A Belgian elementary schoolteacher has been suspended for showing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad while discussing the beheading of a French teacher who had used the same image, local media reported Friday.
The unnamed teacher, who works for Ecole No11 — Aux Sources du Gai Savoir, based in Brussels’ Molenbeek district, was teaching pupils aged between 10 and 11.
Local media said the teacher gave students the opportunity to look down as they were shown one of the cartoons previously published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Teacher faces dismissal
The newspaper Derniere Heure reported that the education authorities have launched disciplinary proceedings against the teacher.
A spokesperson for the Molenbeek’s mayor said the punitive action was taken due to the explicit nature of the cartoon and not specifically because caricature of Islam’s founder was shown.
“Our decision is uniquely based on the fact that these are obscene images. If it had not been of the Prophet we would have done the same thing,” the spokesman said, adding that several of the children’s parents had complained….
Yes, of course you would have.