Question 927 — secularism

Summary

Mr. Jérôme Buisson alerts the Minister of National Education to the risks to the safety of the teacher who was violently attacked at the Sévigné high school in Tourcoing on October 7, 2024. Monday, October 14, 2024, national education organized a national tribute to the two teachers, Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, cowardly killed for having taught and upheld one of the great republican principles: secularism. This precious asset allows to ensure everyone's freedom of conscience and guarantees education free from any religious pressure. It is worth remembering: the Republic is nothing without secularism. However, since the Creil scarf affair in 1989, this fundamental principle has been constantly tested, rejected and reviled by Islamism, to the point of leading to the most abject crimes which punctuate the news more and more regularly, but to which we are becoming accustomed. unfortunately too quickly. In the days following these terrible tragedies, the ritual is always the same: great announcement of support from the political class, tribute disrupted by fanatics, then forgetting and renunciation dominate. The strategy of flight and “no-waves” takes over the real political courage and the strength of the State. Indeed, Islamism is not the only one responsible for these tragedies. The weakness of national education, submission in the face of adversaries' offensives and individual renunciations are also the culprits of these atrocities. Each time, we can observe the same deadly mechanism taking place, the same one to which Samuel Paty was a victim, very well described in Stéphane Simon's work “The Last Days of Samuel Paty”. A teacher does his job by introducing his students to the principle of secularism, based on the law of 1905. Some students and their parents contest the teaching provided and attack the teacher, then his colleagues and the administration abandon him and a lynching ensues on social networks, calls for murder to the unimaginable. The teacher who was violently attacked at the Sévigné high school in Tourcoing by an eighteen-year-old student is currently the victim of this mechanism. As a reminder of the facts, she had simply enforced the 2004 law, prohibiting the wearing of ostentatious religious symbols in schools, by asking this young woman to remove her veil. Behind, she responded with a series of blows and insults. On Wednesday October 9, 2024, we learned that a demonstration in support of this violence was held. Some teachers also found ways to justify this attack. Moreover, the name of this courageous teacher has leaked on social networks and a surge of hatred towards her has already begun. To avoid the worst for it, the State has the duty not to tremble. He must show his unfailing support to the teacher who just enforced one of his laws, as well as to all people ardently defending the Republic. The MP asks the Minister if she has canceled her visit to the Sévigné high school for fear of confrontation with those justifying and motivating this violence. He also wishes to know if a system to protect the teacher concerned is deployed and wishes to be kept informed of the sanctions pronounced against teachers and students who have expressed their support for this new Islamist offensive.

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