Yes, the French government underestimated the threat, and continues to do so, as do all the other governments in the West as well. Also, the West hasn’t yet decided whether those who dare to defy Islamic blasphemy laws and stand for the freedom of speech in drawing Muhammad cartoons are racists and bigots (as Pamela Geller and I were regarded after the Islamic State jihad attack on our free speech event in Texas in 2015), or heroes and martyrs of freedom (as Samuel Paty is regarded now). Apparently one is evil if one survives but heroic if one is killed.
“Teacher who warned of the threat of radical Islam is placed under police protection in France after receiving death threats,” by Rachael Bunyan, Mailonline, February 8, 2021:
A French teacher who warned of the spread of radical Islam in the country has been placed under police protection after he allegedly received death threats.
Didier Lemaire said the threats began after he wrote an open letter saying the state did not do enough to protect Samuel Paty, the French teacher beheaded in a jihadist attack last October.
French prosecutors today said they were investigating the alleged threats against the philosophy teacher.
Mr Lemaire teaches at a high school in Trappes, a low-income Paris suburb with a large Muslim population that has become emblematic of the government’s efforts to curb radicalism.
Authorities say hardline Salafist conservatism has attracted a widespread following in the town, which authorities say was the home of around 50 people who left to fight alongside jihadists in Iraq and Syria in recent years.
Mr Paty, 47, was beheaded near his school in a Paris suburb by 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, a Chechen, on October 16.
The teacher was killed after he showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad for a debate on freedom of expression, angering parents who targeted him in a social media campaign.
Mr Lemaire wrote a few weeks after the beheading in the news magazine Le Point: ‘I have been a witness to the sectarianism that is taking an increased hold on people’s bodies and minds’.
He said that Mr Paty ‘was not protected by an institution that underestimated the threat’. Mr Lemaire said he has since received threats….
Michael Copeland says
When it comes to the point when nearly every school needs armed bodyguards for its teachers will the politicians begin to learn? Or will they remain “away with the fairies”?
Peter Buckley says
Islamic “extremism” in The West will simply have the effect of bringing nations together again. I’ve been saying that the EU is doomed, and the pandemic is already speeding up that process:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1391024/frexit-news-france-eu-membership-referendum-ursula-von-der-leyen-boris-johnson-brexit
Since Macron is bound by his belief in France’s membership of the EU, his own position will soon become untenable, and Le Pen will step in.
The “Nation State” is about to to reclaim its place in Europe.
Inevitable.
What wondrous times are these……
Jayell says
The problem with the West’s response to islam was basically to assume that it was a bona fide ‘religion’ like Christianity and its followers were decent, civilised, respectful, honest human beings. To quote a saying; “Never assume – it makes an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me’…”, and don’t we know it!
Infidel says
Question is – are there enough police and soldiers in France to protect everybody who gets threatened? At some point, France will have to start deporting ‘migrants’, or randomly executing them
Keith O says
Once again someone who dares to speak the truth is threatened with death as a means of silencing them.
An all too common tactic of the left and mudslime jihadists.
gravenimage says
France: Teacher warns of Islamic ‘sectarianism,’ says government ‘underestimated the threat,’ gets death threats
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No one can tell the truth about Islam without getting death threats from Muslims.
Andrew says
The days when speaking the truth will be a revolutionary act… have arrived… gawd help us all..