“The Belgian school seems even more permeable to Islamist influence”

“The Belgian school seems even more permeable to Islamist influence”
“The Belgian school seems even more permeable to Islamist influence”

INTERVIEW – The journalists went to meet teachers from public and private schools in Belgium who express their loneliness in the face of the growing influence of radical Islam on students and their parents. A cry of alarm.

The assassinations of Samuel Paty, whose trial has just opened, and of Dominique Bernard have raised collective awareness of the vulnerability and courage of teachers. Laurence D’Hondt, independent reporter and documentary filmmaker, and Jean-Pierre Martin, correspondent and former special envoy to the Middle East and Central Africa, investigated the rise of Islamism in schools in Belgium. An investigation which highlights the fight of these movements against the values ​​of the Western school. They publish Allah has nothing to do in my class by Éditions Racine.

LE FIGARO. – After the assassination in of two teachers, Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, you published in Belgium “Allah has nothing to do in my class”. Why this title?

Laurence d’HONDT-. It is a cry from the heart repeated several times by the teachers we met throughout our investigation. It’s also a line from the movie Amal

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