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| Teacher attacked after al-Qaeda comments |
| 2010-03-11 |
| A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with teargas after she described al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group", she told reporters on Tuesday as prosecutors began their investigation. "I had just explained that the attacks on September 11, 2001 were carried out by the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, as is written in the text book," said the history teacher, speaking on condition of anonymity. "He stood up and declared that al-Qaeda is not terrorist and that neither is the Taliban," she said, adding that the boy had then pulled out a spray can and doused her and a teaching assistant with teargas. Both staff members, who work in the small school in the central French village of Largentiere, made a criminal complaint against the boy, state prosecutors confirmed. A youth court will be convened in the nearby town of Privas on March 16 to hear the case. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 It would have been an interesting time if Bush had called Islam a religion of Submission instead. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-03-11 23:01 |
| #8 "I'll show YOU who is the most peaceful...take THAT!" |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-03-11 19:13 |
| #7 Kinda touchy there, ain't ya, Jean Claude? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-03-11 16:16 |
| #6 Islam the religion of peace...That is the stupid sentence any President ever said... |
| Posted by: Ana 2010-03-11 15:13 |
| #5 how long until there is an uproar asking for the teachers heads for filing criminal compliants against a muslim |
| Posted by: chris 2010-03-11 12:42 |
| #4 Even doused with weak-ass civ CS, I think I'd have kicked this "youth's" ass up and down the hall a couple of times. Just on GP. I don't like being gassed. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-03-11 12:14 |
| #3 The "youth". Islam, the religion of |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-03-11 12:03 |
| #2 "I had just explained that the attacks on September 11, 2001 were carried out by the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, as is written in the text book," said the history teacher, speaking on condition of anonymity. Seems French textbooks deal with reality far better than American NEA approved ones do. Then there is the fundamental question, do they even teach inconvenient true history in our schools anymore than just the usual white male America is evil? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-03-11 12:02 |
| #1 So what was that kid doing with a canister of tear gas in a school? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-03-11 11:47 |