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The Obin Report shows Islamization of French schools well underway

As Pope Benedict XVI has indicated, re-evangelizing the West, and Europe in particular must be a top priority.

Already Muslims have made great strides in their Islamization of France, by hijacking the French school system. A March 11, 2005 article, "France - Il ne figure même pas sur le site du ministère. Pourquoi veut-on étouffer le rapport courageux et accablant de Jean-Pierre Obin, inspecteur général de l'Éducation nationale, sur l'islamisation de l'école républicaine?", in Proche-Orient.info, made it clear that great strides have already been made by Islamists to coerce, intimidate, and subvert school children in France into becoming radical Muslims. The article draws its conclusions from a report developed by Jean-Pierre Obin, the General Inspector of Education. A rough translation of the article into English can be found using the Google translation engine. The report, which was silenced in great part in France, can be downloaded as a PDF file from Proche-Orient.info.

The Weekly Standard

The Islamization of French Schools
A disturbing report is leaked.

by Olivier Guitta
05/09/2005, Volume 010, Issue 32

AN OFFICIAL REPORT DEALING WITH religious expression in French schools has become a must read for anyone interested in the Islamization of France. Written under the auspices of the top national education official, Jean-Pierre Obin, the report was not initially released by the Ministry of Education. But it was leaked on the Internet in March and now can be found in its entirety at Proche-Orient.info and other websites.

The 37-page report is the product of a study carried out between October 2003 and May 2004 by a team of 10 inspectors, including Obin. In addition to examining the recent literature on religion and schools in France, they visited 61 academic and vocational high schools in 24 départements, chosen not as a cross-section of public schools, but rather as schools typical of those where religious expression has become a problem because of the high concentration of ethnic and religious minorities. Many are located in ethnically segregated neighborhoods now often referred to, the report says, "by analogy with the United States, as 'ghettos.'"

In each school, inspectors interviewed the management team, staff, and teachers, as well as lay people from the community, including parents, social workers, and elected officials. In addition, regional education officials were asked to submit accounts of their experiences in primary schools.

Amid much diversity--some of the schools were rural, some urban; some had fairly homogeneous student populations, others immigrants from many different countries--the inspectors report two consistent findings: a marked increase in religious expression, especially Muslim expression, in schools; and denial on the part of officials at all levels--from the classroom, to the principal's office, to the regional administration--that this phenomenon is occurring.

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