PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack that struck at the heart of the country's secular values.

The teacher had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering a number of Muslim parents. Muslims believe that any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous.

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[–] [S] 176 points 2 years ago (20 children)

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    [–] 165 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

    Maybe these people would be happier moving to a country where their religion is forced down from the government? Maybe go there?

    You’re incompatible with western society so change or get the fuck out.

    And before anyone jumps down my throat I’m speaking specifically of those who don’t accept that things like freedom of speech includes things they don’t like.

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    [–] 151 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Seems like a fair and reasonable response to a cartoon.

    The religion of peace strikes again.

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    [–] 138 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Religion ruins everything. Also here is a painting of Mohammed

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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Nothing to add, just thought a cock n balls would improve it, seeing as he was a pedo

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    seeing as he was a pedo

    I'm no scholar. An example of this please?

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Search for Aisha, a child wife he took. If I remember correctly he married her at 6 years old, but waited until she was 9 to 'consumate' the marriage.

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    [–] 131 points 2 years ago (35 children)

    Islam is so touchy. Even pointing out Mohammed was a bandit and a pedophile gets them going and that is just straight facts anyone can get from reading about his life.

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  • [+] 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (31 children)
  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be honest, the Nationalist Christians (Nat-C’s) that we have here at home are pretty fucking unsettling. They know that it’s their god-given right to be in charge of everything and they will “save” everyone by trying to force their twisted interpretation of religious texts onto the populace with zero compromise, because “that’s god’s plan”.

    They’re just as bad as Islamic extremists; they’re just committing their violence in more official channels and in a slower fashion, up until the day that they manage to get an unshakable hold on power (read: establish a “theocratic” dictatorship, like the Republic of Gilead from Handmaid’s Tale, which they took as an aspirational goal instead of a cautionary story).

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    In Europe there are more Muslim refugees though, than, for example, in North America which gets more regular Muslim immigrants.

    It's a specific problem in Europe with an influx of refugees from war torn and poor countries who are often troubled, more extreme in their religion and potentially less educated (because they fled from shitty countries).

    I guess it's more connected to those circumstances than with Islam in itself. Statistically, more educated and better off people are less religious. I suspect that's the same with Muslims?!

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It was a class lesson on freedom of speech… oh gee.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    all religions are cancer. ALL. period. I can criticise any fanatic of any religion the same way I criticise the fanatics of the religion I grew up and was brainwashed to follow. I was able to leave. For some people it may be more difficult because of the situation in their country. However, the people who migrate in mostly atheistic west countries, they continue being fanatics by choice.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Sad little cowards can’t live in a free world where people can have their own thoughts on belief.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    i'd just like to comment on this comment section

    since i've joined lemmy some months ago i've seen the nuanced discussion i was so relieved and happy to find here degrading. this section ilustrates that well. the nuanced and cautious are still there, but are being briganded against in a way i don't think they were before

    maybe i'm sounding like an "eternal september" elitist here, but i do like open discussions on the internet, with all the ugliness that's bound to happen. i just really hope with all my heart that, in the midst of it all, the good things don't go away

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    [–] [B] 33 points 2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack that struck at the heart of the country's secular values.

    The teacher had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering a number of Muslim parents.

    One of the minors is a 15-year-old girl who allegedly told her parents that Paty had shown caricatures of the prophet in her class.

    Paty, 47, was killed outside his school in a Paris suburb by an 18-year-old assailant, born in Russia of Chechen origin, who was shot dead by police soon after the attack.

    France is home to Europe's largest Muslim minority and has suffered a wave of attacks by Islamist militants or their sympathisers in past years.

    In the wake of Paty's killing, some teachers acknowledged they censored themselves to avoid confrontation with pupils and parents over religion and free speech.


    The original article contains 293 words, the summary contains 173 words. Saved 41%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    When I was in high school I screamed in the middle of biology class "those are not gonads, those are balls!". I still feel bad about it because the teacher was so nice and I was a nightmare.

    I feel a bit better.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (47 children)

    I'm sorry what? 2.5 years? Is that a joke? Those animals should never set foot outside prison walls again no matter their age.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (26 children)

    The five other minors to be prosecuted, aged between 14 and 15 at the time of the attack, will be charged with premeditated criminal conspiracy, or ambush.

    They are suspected of having pointed out Paty to the murderer or helped monitor his exit from the school.

    They weren’t involved in the killing, they are guilty of pointing him out.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    These kids haven't killed anyone. A weird guy told them who is the teacher who's insulted Muhamad, here is 300 EUR, I'll teach him to not do it again

    They couldn't guess what was about to happen, and now live with the guilt and trauma which is a worse sentence than any jail time

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    They are not the perpetrators, and were kids at the time. Kids are easily influenced, and make mistakes, a lot of them.

    In this case those mistakes ended up causing the gruesome death of an innocent teacher, that is why they are on trial. If someone is guilty, it is their parents, who failed to educate them, and those who exploited those weaknesses to put them under their influence.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    They are not the perpetrators, and were kids at the time. Kids are easily influenced, and make mistakes, a lot of them.

    Im sorry but my mistakes as a kid were breaking windows not beheading people.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    In this case it is more selling information about the victim to the perpetrator.

    The tribunal task will be to evaluate if they knew what the perpetrator was about to do, in which case their punishment will be harsher, or if they didn't.

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