Mourning A Teacher, Symbol of France
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French President Emmanuel Macron Reuters
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"He was killed precisely because he incarnated the Republic."
"He was killed because the Islamists want our
future. They know that with quiet heroes like him, they will never have
it."
"Samuel Paty on Friday became the face of the Republic, of our desire to
break the will of the terrorists ... and to live as a community of free
citizens in our country."
French President Emmanuel Macron
"The enemy is here."
"Radical Islam has infiltrated our society founded on tolerance."
French Prime Minister Jean Castex
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Samuel Paty, a well-liked teacher, had faced threats for showing the cartoons AFP
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A school parent who prosecutors identify as having used social media to whip up a campaign of hate against geography/history middle-school teacher Samuel Paty had been contacted by Chechen teen Abdullakh Anzorov before he set out to murder the teacher who had used cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammad to illustrate his workshop on French values and specifically freedom of speech. He had forwarded a message which elicited responses through WhatsApp.
That parent of a 13-year-old Muslim girl who was in Mr. Paty's class is now in custody along with others involved either directly or tangentially in the gruesome death of the teacher who had received threats from those same sources before the attack that culminated in his beheading. An act that the killer himself captured on his cellphone, then sent the grisly photograph to President Macron with the message that he had slaughtered the infidel 'dog' in defence of merciful Islam, restoring honour to Mohammad through his act of restorative justice.
When Ansorov appeared at the school to await afternoon dismissal and the exit of Mr. Paty, he asked students who were leaving the school to point out who among those exiting was the teacher, evidently explaining that he intended to "film the teacher [and] make him apologise for the cartoon of the Prophet [Muhammad]". He also wanted, he expanded, "to humiliate him, to hit him". The accommodating students, ages 13 and 14, described Mr. Paty and remained with his killer for over two hours awaiting Mr. Paty's appearance.
For their troubles they were paid $355. They now are on the list of seven people whom French authorities plan to prosecute with relation to the attack. They were most certainly accomplices to an act of unprecedented atrocity in Paris. That they are only teens, that they would have had no idea of the violence that would ensue would most certainly represent a credible defence. Mr. Paty was a well=liked teacher, a sensitive man who asked his Muslim pupils to absent themselves for fear of offending them in that particular class.
There are now 16 people held in custody, over the killing that saw Mr. Paty beheaded on a street in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a middle-class Paris suburb, outside the school he taught at. His killer, born in Moscow of Chechen parents, lived with them as a refugee in Paris since 2008. That during those twelve years of his upbringing he had not absorbed French culture and values is a testament to the Muslim incapacity to integrate.
Mr. Paty and his horrible fate is mourned and recognized throughout France -- a national tribute to honour him is to be held today at the Sorbonne university where Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer will be involved in awarding the Legion d'Honneur posthumously; France's highest award of distinction. Shot dead by police shortly following the attach, the killer had planned to punish his victim for the satirical cartoons of the Prophet, an unspeakable slur, punishable by death in Sharia law.
The Paris mosque that had featured the video that incited Muslims to make demands of the school to fire Mr. Paty from his teaching position for having insulted Islam, produced by the father of one of the students who later also published the name of the school and the teacher's identity, has been closed by authorities for a period of time. There are a total of 50 mosques and Muslim organizations under close scrutiny, some of which will be shuttered for good, for their industry in spreading hate and inciting to violence.
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| A woman holds a placard reading "I am a teacher" as people gather on the
Vieux Port in Marseille on October 18, in homage to history teacher
Samuel Paty |
Labels: France, Islamofascism, Samuel Paty, Terrorism
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