posted on May, 12 2005 @ 03:23 PM
AN OFFICIAL REPORT DEALING WITH religious expression in French schools has become a must read for anyone interested in the Islamization of France.
Written under the auspices of the top national education official, Jean-Pierre Obin, the report was not initially released by the Ministry of
Education. But it was leaked on the Internet in March and now can be found in its entirety at www.proche-orient.info and other websites.
The 37-page report is the product of a study carried out between October 2003 and May 2004 by a team of 10 inspectors, including Obin.
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The researchers began by studying the neighborhoods surrounding the schools.
Scores of informants told the Obin team that these neighborhoods were undergoing a "rapid and recent swing" toward Islamization, thanks to the
growing influence of religious activists. These young men, intense and highly intellectual in their piety, are sometimes former residents of the
neighborhood who have been to prison, where they were converted to Islam. More often, however, they are educated men with degrees from universities in
France, North Africa, or the Middle East. They have come to be known as "bearded ones" (distinctive beards are a marker of Muslim purists and
extremists) or "big brothers" (a name evocative of the worldwide jihadist movement´s Muslim Brotherhood)...
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-------- Females
The biggest social change entailed by this Islamization, Obin reports, is a deterioration in the position of females. Teenage girls are forbidden to
play sports and are constantly watched by an informal religious police made up of young men, sometimes their own younger brothers. Makeup, skirts, and
form-fitting dresses are forbidden; dark, loose trousers are the strongly recommended attire. To go to the blackboard in front of a class, some Muslim
girls put on long coats. Often, they are forced to wear the headscarf, or hijab, and forbidden to frequent coed movie theaters, community centers, and
gyms, or even to go out at all on weekends. Lots of young women were afraid to tell the Obin team what punishments are in store for them if they
disobey. Not only female students but also female teachers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, are frequently subjected to sexist remarks by male teenagers.
In primary schools, the report cites instances of first grade boys´ refusing to participate in coed activities and Muslim children´s refusing to
sing, dance, or draw a face. In one school, restrooms were segregated: some for Muslim students and some for "French." Some lunchrooms were
segregated, by section or table. Some students required halal meat; at one school, the principal provided only halal meat for everyone.
With Muslim proselytizing on the rise, the report states that students are under pressure to observe Ramadan, the annual month during which Muslims
fast during the day. In some high schools, it is simply impossible for Muslim kids not to join in, whether they like it or not. Obin cites one student
who tried to commit suicide because of intimidation and threats from other kids over this issue. Obin also emphasizes that many conversions to Islam
are taking place under duress.
----- Judeophobia
Inevitably, the report records rampant "Judeophobia," to use the term in vogue in France. Among even the youngest students, the term "Jew" has
become the all-purpose insult. Obin deplores the fact that principals and teachers do not strenuously object to this, treating it simply as part of
the youth culture. Even more serious is the increase in assaults on Jews or those presumed to be Jewish. Usually the assailants are Muslim students.
Sometimes the victims are, too: One Turkish high-school girl was relentlessly harassed and bullied at school because her country is an ally of Israel.
The section of the report on anti-Semitism winds up with this sad conclusion: In France today, Jewish kids are not welcome at every school. Many are
forced to switch schools or even conceal their identity to escape anti-Semitism.
---- CLASS CONTENTS - Example
As for history, Muslim students object to its Judeo-Christian bias and blatant falsehood. They loudly protest the Crusades, and commonly deny the
Holocaust. Under the circumstances, many teachers censor their own material, often skipping entire topics, like the history of Israel or of
Christianity. The report cites one teacher who keeps a Koran on his desk for reference whenever a thorny issue arises. It cites Muslim students who
refuse to use the plus sign in mathematics because it looks like a cross. Field trips, especially to churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, are
boycotted.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, these pathologies are now present across France. Muslim "ghettos" are found not only in the suburbs of major cities
but in towns and villages as well.
--- REPORT CENSORED BY FRENCH GOVERNMENT
Still unclear is how French educators can be expected to hang tough while their government refuses to own up to the problem--as demonstrated by its
failure to make public the Obin report.