What’s really on trial is the freedom of speech in France, and whether it will give way to Sharia blasphemy restrictions.
“Samuel Paty: six teenagers to go on trial in connection with French teacher’s beheading,” by Angelique Chrisafis, Guardian, November 27, 2023:
Six teenagers will go on trial in Paris on Monday in connection with events leading to the beheading of Samuel Paty in 2020, in a case that horrified France.
The 47-year-old history teacher was stabbed and then decapitated near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radicalised 18-year-old who arrived in France aged six with his Chechen parents and had been granted asylum.
Anzorov, who was later shot dead at the scene by police, killed Paty after messages spread on social media that the teacher had shown his class cartoons of the prophet Muhammad from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Paty had used the magazine as part of an ethics class to discuss free speech laws in France….
One of the teenagers on trial is a girl, who was 13 at the time of Paty’s death, who has been seen as central to the events.
She is accused of making a “false accusation” for wrongly saying that Paty had asked Muslim students to identify themselves and leave the classroom before he showed the cartoons. She later told investigators she was not in the classroom that day, French media reported, citing the investigation. Paty had not asked children to leave but said they could turn away if they felt they would be offended by the cartoons shown….
The five teenagers are alleged to have helped point out Paty to Anzorov. They said they never thought it would lead to his murder….
“It is complicated,” said Dylan Slama, a lawyer for one of the accused. “He will be associated with this for the rest of his life.”…
Yeah. And Samuel Paty will be dead for the rest of this young man’s life.
Ray Jarman says
“The five teenagers are alleged to have helped point out Paty to Anzorov. They said they never thought it would lead to his murder….”
I guess they thought that he would have a nice chat with Paty. They are Muslim and yet must have never read the unholiest of books, the Quran, where showing a cartoon of the mass murder’s face.
We all must thank James Madison for his perspicaciousness. Were it not for the 1st Amendment to our Constitution, many of us would be in deep kimchi and this and many other websites would not be permitted. True darkness would reign.
tim gallagher says
It is always Muslims. No other people carry on like these evil, barbaric scum of the earth knuckle draggers. It would never be, say, Buddhists or Christian teens behaving like these evil scum. Hungary and those other wise countries that ban Muslims won’t have to face crimes like this because only evil, primitive Muslims are this evil. And over a cartoon. Muslims are knuckle dragging primitives who should not be allowed to escape from their stinking, backward Muslim countries into civilised non-Muslim countries anywhere..
Dr K says
100% Tim,well put !
Shari Is Shit – Don’t Put Up With It
#shariaisshit
CogitoErgoSum says
If they are Muslims I would say the odds of them being liars is 100% – which is okay under Islam if they lied to protect Islam. And if these teens really want to be good Muslims they should all pray to be granted the greatest reward they could ever hope for in this life – the gift of becoming martyrs for Islam. I suggest the French bring back the guillotine – only for those found guilty of being part of an illegal beheading, of course. And since the 13-year old girl was over the age of 9 at the time of the murder, she should be treated the same as an adult – just as Muhammad treated a 9-year-old Aisha as an adult. They helped kill an Infidel and they should get the reward of a quick trip to Muslim Paradise. I think that everyone involved in this case should be happy with such a verdict.
Westman says
It’s the same story whether here or in Gaza : The radicals want to cut off your head and the moderates want the radicals to cut off your head.
“They said they never thought it would lead to his murder….” Translation: “We never thought we would face any consequences.”
somehistory says
In the U.S., the defendant doesn’t have to testify However, if they do, they must tell the Truth or face charges of perjury.
Sometimes, the defendant is so sure of himself that he begs to testify and even acts as his own attorney. Many times, a good prosecutor can get the Truth out of the perp as he sits on the stand.
Is it that way in France? Perhaps one or more of these mozlums will take the stand and be required to tell the Truth. Or perhaps a parent or friend will be called and be told to tell it like it is and not be allowed to lie without facing punishment. Whatever way the French have judicial protocols set.
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bagsgroove says
It’s time to wake up Madame Guillotine from her historical slumber. She has much work to do in collecting the heads of muslime terrorists. An chop up their bodies afterward and burn them to send them on the way to hell !
bagsgroove says
It’s time to wake up Madame Guillotine from her historical slumber. She has much work to do in collecting the heads of muslime terrorists. And chop up their bodies afterwards and burn them to send them on the way to hell !
PRCS says
The French magazine Charlie Hebdo published the images of Islam’s founder, Muhammad, in 2012. That French kuffar had flouted Islam’s blasphemy laws–in France–offended Muslims around the world.
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“In 2015 radicalised gunmen stormed its Paris office, killing 11 people inside, and a police officer outside, in coordinated terrorist attacks which also resulted in a second police officer being killed and four hostages murdered at a kosher supermarket.”
Well, no, Angelique Chrisafis.
The perps, as is so frequently the case, were Muslim gunmen.
Robert Spencer rightly notes: “What’s really on trial is the freedom of speech in France, and whether it will give way to Sharia blasphemy restrictions.
Hudders. says
We must keep France & it’s people in our prayers now, more than ever before.
The country is at a tipping point. Sharia is but a small step away.
What happens there now will have a dynamic sociopolitical influence, on many other countries of Europe, currently coming to terms with the increasing islamic menace.
Heaven help them & us all too.
somehistory says
Hudders.
Prayer is powerful and those who ask, receive. Sometimes immediately, sometimes later than we would wish, but answers do come.
We are all on the brink; and a fantastic change is coming. We must keep our faith strong; as things worsen, we must work harder to be stronger.
Mari Forever says
I live here in France. French Muslims have been deliberately freed from one of the fundamental laws of our society, that of secularism.
France signed in January 2000 an agreement with the Muslim authorities. The latter demanded the withdrawal of the right for a French Muslim to no longer believe or to change his religion. This means that any French Muslim is, in this regard, subject to Koranic law and that of his community and not to French law on secularism. This explains why a Muslim who violates the obligation of belief or who wants to change his religion is guilty of apostasy with all that that implies: blessing of his community, corporal punishment or imprisonment for girls, pressures and threats (some live under high protection like the courageous Zineb El Rhazoui).
This Muslim “exception” is contrary to French law; It is the open door to all the abuses that we see because if we have let go on this point, the pressures are strong to give way on other plans, at the local and national level. It is the only religion in France that has achieved such a thing and what particularly revolts me is that it was granted on the sly, without any consultation. Would the French have agreed? I very much doubt it, but we did not consult them. And yet it is THEIR constitution that it is. In short, French Muslims have been deliberately freed from one of the fundamental laws of our society. It is extremely serious.
Athmanathan Seetharaman says
I would like to see how the cartoons of the Messenger of Allah look like!