Posted on 01/06/2006 6:10:45 PM PST by blam
Father imprisoned four girls in flat to 'teach them Islam'
By Henry Samuel in Paris
(Filed: 07/01/2006)
A Moroccan father of four girls who imprisoned his wife and children in their flat "in the name of Islam" received a 10-month suspended sentence and was stripped of his parental rights yesterday.
The unidentified 45-year-old was found guilty of breaking French law on compulsory schooling for children over the age of six, which applies to three of the four girls - aged four, 10, 13 and 14.
The man, from the town of Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme region, said he had refused to allow the girls to go to school without the Islamic headscarf, which is banned in state classrooms.
An unemployed benefit claimant, he argued that he was the "only person able to give them a decent education".
But the judge ruled that the children could have studied the state curriculum from home by correspondence.
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.
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.
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.
The man's wife, who was not charged, has been moved far from Romans-sur-Isère, near the children's new home, and is allowed to visit them.
C'est la vie Islamique!
/sarc
"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.
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.
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??
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.
That bears repeating. Plus, I want to be able to go back and find this quote when he does kill them. ROP...
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.
They could have been schooled through a correspondence course.
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.
I see riots in the future with France caving and giving this guy millions.
TROP
"Islam is as Islam does"
even Forrest Gump could figure this out...
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.
Allah bin Satan assimilated him long ago.
-ccm
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".
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