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.
Yamukkahs were banned in school under the same legislation.
Not just compulsory socialism out of the frogs either. They tell the same Islamic kids who are apparently required to be brainwashed into frog secularism that their girls cannot wear head coverings of a religious nature. Catholic kids cannot wear crucifixes. Other Christian kids cannot wear crosses. Jewish kids cannot wear yarmulkes. Etc., etc., etc. ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
At least the Islamic population in France cares enough about Allah to suffer for their faith at the hands of their enemies and ours. I won't speak for other faiths, but I would like to hear that genuinely Catholic parents were suffering for your Faith and mine in order to heroically raise their children as Catholics.
Meanwhile, I want to share between Catholics and Muslims in France the franchises for Freedom Fries, Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream and similar products. Let them be trademarked here and set the WTO on France if they try to interfere. Next up, we can create a chain of elementary, secondary and colege level schools AS BUSINESSES (owned by Americans and operating in France) and involve the WTO in punishing any frog gummint interference as illegal restraint of international "trade."
WTO wants to cram abortion down Ireland's throat this way. Maybe we can help them to see the error of their ways.
So is the French Gummint.
This is perhaps the first indication that there IS a Government in France since, oh, November 1st or so.
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