Really, what did anyone in France expect this school to teach? If every last political leader in the West had not decided to be determinedly ignorant about the content of Islamic teaching, France (and other Western countries) wouldn’t be in this fix.
“At the Averroès high school in Lille, Salafist readings and small arrangements between friends,” translated from “Au lycée Averroès de Lille, lectures salafistes et petits arrangements entre amis,” by Paul Sugy, Le Figaro, May 16, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
INFO LE FIGARO – The regional chamber of accounts points to irregularities in the management of the Muslim high school. Above all, a course in Muslim ethics with Salafist content raises concerns.
The first private Muslim high school under contract continues to make headlines. At the beginning of May, those responsible for the neighboring Villeneuve-d’Ascq mosque were placed in police custody, in particular because of a fraudulent loan granted by the Islamic center to the Averroès high school. Their lawyer told Le Figaro that the loan, part of which was never repaid, was aimed at bailing out the high school coffers thanks to donations from the faithful. The cash flow of the latter, according to Me Mehdi Ziatt, was affected by the refusal of the Hauts-de-France region to pay in 2020 its annual subsidy to the high school (subsidy finally paid following a decision of the Council of State)….
And even if the educational project soberly refers to “universal Muslim values,” Averroès’ commitment to republican values is unquestionable – but unfortunately only on paper. The school repeatedly emphasizes its attachment to “republican values,” “education for citizenship” and “civic spirit,” which are mentioned again and again in its texts. In November 2020, the school had extensively reported on a tribute paid by the students to Samuel Paty…
However, the regional audit chamber underlines the discrepancy between this striking rhetoric and the reality of religious education at the Collège and Lycée Averroès. This concerns in particular the curriculum and the reading offered as part of a voluntary course on Muslim ethics….
One of the books covered in the second grade has called out prosecutors in particular… The book contains a number of political and social rules that the believer must abide by, such as the prohibition of mixed teams in the workplace or the prohibition for a sick woman to be examined by a man. Finally, the book, which calls for referring to “the law of Allah and nothing else” in all disputes, condemns apostasy, which is presented as a crime worthy of death: Whoever ceases to be a Muslim “must be executed according to the legal punishment provided for apostasy”…
Almost every year, the Lycée Averroès is nearing the 100% pass rate at the baccalaureate… Averroès has to rely, unreasonably, on the generosity of its private donors, who either donate directly or grant interest-free loans, sometimes followed by a debt waiver. In total, these donations amount to around 6 million euros over the ten years of the financial year, a large part of which comes from abroad, via funding from Qatar (which the journalist for Le Figaro Georges Malbrunot in particular has highlighted in his book Qatar Papers 2019), or even via money collected from mosques in Germany and the Netherlands. The institution also depends on public subsidies, which have amounted to more than 6.5 million euros since 2010. Public funds and private donations each account for more than a quarter of Averroès’ income, whose turnover is far from sufficient to ensure the institution’s self-financing. This business model “therefore appears structurally unbalanced and unsustainable in the long term” for the prosecutors….
The audit of Averroès’ accounts also revealed numerous errors or irregularities which, taken together, gave the impression of sometimes careless management of the association’s funds….
Walter Sieruk says
Those so called Islamic “schools” are actually genuine places where young people receive good ,firm e education in math, science history but those schools are really Islamic mind programming centers in which impressionable youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into having an Islamic worldview of everything’
In other words. those are Islamic brainwashing centers that ingrain Islamic and even a jihadist mindset into the hearts and minds of students , meaning victims.
Those “schools’ are more like caves of darkness than places of enlightenment .
Speaking of “caves” and relating it to those kind of “schools,”. the Greek philosopher Plato is one of the contributors to Western Civilization. He may shed some light into the subject of those people who are shackled in the chains and darkness of Islamic thought. In Plato’s REPUBLIC he gave an allegory of a cave where “the condition of men living in a sort of cavernous chamber…Here they have been from childhood, chained by leg and also by the neck, so that they cannot move and see only what is in front of them.”
This can fit into what the Imams do in the mosques and how they brainwash the young people in the madrassa’s by always programming Islamic doctrine into their victims and not exposing them to other worldviews. Furthermore, even in Islamic tradition when Muslims have their newborn child the father whispers words of the Quran into the infants ear so that that Quran verses are the first thing the newborn person hearts.
This programming process takes place all their lives. These are some of the chains that keep them bound in a mosque [cave]. The chains do not let them reach out for dialectic reasoning and let them examine the evidence both for as well as against, or even question whether Muhammad was a true prophet of God or not, and if the Quran is a hoax or not. As the chains and darkness of the cave blinds and holds the prisoners back from reality, so Islamic propaganda holds back the cognition to reason with the question if Islam is true or not.
They are forbidden from even thinking to question Islam. Furthermore, if a Muslim by some miracle wakes up to the truth about Islam, it would be like the man in Plato’s cave allegory who was released from his chains and taken outside to the real world. At first direct light would be painful and disorienting, it would take some time for him to understand what the truth is all about, he even might cling to the shadows and still for a time believe some of the illusions to be real. But he would finally come to know “what he had formerly seen was meaningless illusion.” And that was “what passed for wisdom in his former dwelling place and that the other cave prisoners also needed to see the light [the truth] for he “was sorry for them.” and he would re-enter the cave just to rescue them. Nevertheless, the cave prisoners wouldn’t understand and “if they could lay hand on the man who was trying to set them free.” And if they could “they would kill him.”
Likewise, when someone escapes from the shackles of Islam, those still in the darkness of this religion would not understand and if possible kill him for leaving Islam, and even more so if he were to try to enlighten them about the truth about Islam. For these people in Islam are chained to an empty imitation of truth and godliness.
Walter Sieruk says
In those Islamic “schools< the students are strongly discouraged from thinking independently for themselves and reply on the Muslim teachers for all their knowledge. Especially when comes to Islam .'.
The youth in those places are instructs by the imams and the other teachers never ,ever to doubt Islam or to question why Islam instructs in the thing Muslim are required to believe in with a firm and strong but blind and unquestioning faith.
This is a very fitting reminder that the classical work of ancient Greek literature, by Plato, entitled THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES it in written that Socrates had said that “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Likewise, in may also be said that “An unexamined religion is not worth believing in.” This is said about all religions. Yet to be specific, in this case, the topic is about the religion of Islam.
Furthermore, one man who was as a former a Muslim and had lived in one of the Islamic nations of the Middle East but now he is Christian and an American citizen had explained in a book he wrote that “Driving into depths of the word of reasoned thinking and research in Islamic societies has always been costly. Some Muslim who have done this have even been excluded from their social rights and even sentenced to death.” [1]
[1] ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD by Daniel Shayesteh page 70.
Ole Pederson says
What a joke. Averroès, the brilliant medieval judge and physician, had an open mind. His writings were condemned as unislamic by the authorities of the time and he had to flee the country. Only because Christian academics acknowledged him he is known today as the great scholar of medieval Spain under Islamic rule.
Tatanka says
There is nothing decent or good that has the word Islam in its context.
Xyzxyz says
OMG. I used to live in
Lille in the early 80s…there sure was no mosque in Villeneuve-d’Ascqu! No Islamist school neither….it shows that it really doesn’t take long….I dread to think what Europe will be like when my child is the age I am now.
tim gallagher says
I would say that basic islam has a supremacist view in relation to all the other very much hated non-Muslim religions. The Koran is full of hatred, not tolerance, for the non-believers, the non-Muslims of the world. I’m sure that every islamic school would be pushing the Koranic view of life and islam’s aim is obviously to impose its barbaric garbage on everybody in the world. That is all that islam is about and all that it ever will be aiming to achieve. I bet that all islamic schools would have the same rotten attitude towards the hated infidels, the non-believers who have not yet submitted to islam. A tolerant outlook and islam are strangers to one another.
Eric Brazau says
The following is from a School in America: Mufti Usama Abdulghani
“Islam teaches us that Islam is supreme. The supremacy of Islam. Not that we want a seat at the table, not that our whole hope is to stop islamophobia so that we can just be treated like human beings. No, Islam is supreme.”
https://www.ericbrazau.com/muslim-children-supremacist-ideology/
OLD GUY says
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have and are spreading islam in our colleges and universities here in America as well. They have been pumping millions of dollars into the endowment funds and buying influence into the promotion of islamic studies and propaganda on our school campuses.
Kenneth Johnson says
Close all Islamic schools.. KEN