Father Imprisoned Four Girls In Flat To 'Teach Them Islam'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-7-2006 | Henry Samuel

[Sender]

They were forbidden to play with toys, watch television or read anything other than the Koran. Their only permitted activities were crochet and cleaning. None of them speaks a word of French.

C'est la vie Islamique!

[manwiththehands]

They're only French. What do we care?

/sarc

[purpleland]

"By using imprisonment to teach his family Islam, he has taught us all about Islam, though what we learned doens't reflect well on it."

Hummm...could there be an analogy here with the NEA opposing home schooling? So far, our "government" does not interfere with home schooling. However, the NEA opposes vouchers and deduction for education alternatives to the public school system.

[elli1]

Doesn't this statement contradict itself?

I took it to mean that once in a blue moon they left the apartment but had never gotten outside of the apartment building.

[saquin]

"The girls, all born in France, had rarely left their flat in La Monnaie, a poor housing estate, and had never got further than the lobby."

Doesn't this statement contradict itself?

No, their flat is their apartment. So they rarely left the flat, for other parts of the building (to the lobby to get the mail? other things?) but never got out of the building itself. That's what it sounds like to me. If so, that's shocking. So that means these 10 and 13 year olds have never been outside??

[sittnick]

While I am not too impressed with the father'sd antics. I am also not too impressed with French public education/curriculum being compulsory. That means French-style socialist indoctrination is compulsory.

Subtract the imprisonment and the mistreatment of the wife and kids, and I'd rather have the ol' man teaching them than the post-revolutionary French.

[JoeSixPack1]

AH! OK, so they had hallway privileges. What a creepy existance.

[EricT.]

If they don't lock this guy up, he's going to go kill those girls.

That bears repeating. Plus, I want to be able to go back and find this quote when he does kill them. ROP...

[JoeSixPack1]

Thanks for the reply.

Above and beyond never being allowed outside, they never had a toy, TV, or friends.

[Clintonfatigued]

This man didn't home school his children, he imprisoned & enslaved them. Not the same thing.

However, this tragedy does have the potential to make homeschooling look bad.

[Clintonfatigued]

They could have been schooled through a correspondence course.

[A knight without armor]

I agree with those who say the girls just never left the building itself.

But this sentence amazes me: "Social services acted after the eldest rang a child abuse hotline last summer on the advice of a social worker she met outside the flat."

I wonder how that came about. The social worker must speak Arabic. I wonder if the neighbors called the agency because they were concerned about the girls or if it was a chance meeting. I bet the neighbors are moos also and it took a courageous person, most likely a woman, to secretly call the authorities.

[AbeKrieger]

If he really wanted to teach them Islam he should have thrown a nasty rag over them and beat them. Or flown a plane into them. That's what they do.

[varyouga]

I see riots in the future with France caving and giving this guy millions.

[SandRat]

TROP

[VOA]

"Islam is as Islam does"
even Forrest Gump could figure this out...

[elli1]

Subtract the imprisonment and the mistreatment of the wife and kids, and I'd rather have the ol' man teaching them than the post-revolutionary French.

This is a case of where I'd have to take my chances with the French. This creep shouldn't have custody of or be trusted to 'teach' anything. He's seriously, dangerously insane.

[ApplegateRanch]

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE...

An unemployed benefit claimant

The man, from the town of Romans-sur-Isère in the Drone region

Allah bin Satan assimilated him long ago.

[ccmay]

Out out out with these dregs and scum. Put them on the next boat to Morocco in a packing crate. Let the girls stay if they wish, on the condition that they renounce Islam. I suspect they'd be only too happy to spit on a Koran if they could be sure dear old Dad wouldn't be there to behead them.

-ccm

[purpleland]

This man didn't home school his children, he imprisoned & enslaved them. Not the same thing.

However, this tragedy does have the potential to make homeschooling look bad.

*Sorta my point...it is possible the nefarious NEA, et al, could claim that home schooling in the U.S. is a form of "imprisonment".