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In reply to the discussion: French police make arrests after teacher beheaded in Paris suburb [View all]Withywindle
(9,988 posts)Because of their religion?
I don't. Students go to school for an education, and an important part of education is encountering ideas they don't agree with, and learning to deal with them in a civil manner. And learning that the religious worldview they were raised in, if they're fundamentalists, its FAR from the real center of the universe, and there are many ways to see the world that are different.
I don't assume this teacher was mocking his students. I don't know. He might have been. Or he might have been legitimately trying to educate about recent history like the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and talk about cultural differences in how depictions of religious figures are seen, and how what is shocking and taboo to one group might be unremarkable to another. It's an important conversation to have, if so.