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British trainer apologises, suspended for exhibiting Charlie Hebdo cartoons

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The headteacher of a college within the United Kingdom was pressured to apologise to Muslims for exhibiting satirical cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad to college students. The trainer has additionally been suspended pending a proper investigation.
According to the experiences, Gary Kibble, the top of Batley Grammar School, apologised to folks for exhibiting the cartoons taken from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo throughout a non secular research lesson this week. Following that, a large protest was organised outdoors the varsity on Thursday morning, calling for the trainer’s resignation.
Imam Mohammed Amin Pandor, the director of the ‘Peace Institute’, and some others gathered outdoors the varsity to sentence using the pictures as “totally unacceptable” and demanded that the trainer concerned has been suspended.
The college authorities issued a proper apology to the members of the Muslim group and guaranteed them that they might provoke an investigation into the difficulty. The protests had been reportedly organised by giving calls on social media, asking dad and mom to assemble outdoors college to demand trainer’s suspension or resignation for exhibiting the cartoons.
“Upon investigation, it was clear that the resource used in the lesson was completely inappropriate and had the capacity to cause great offence to members of our school community for which we would like to offer a sincere and full apology,” Kibble mentioned, promising an additional investigation.
The movies of protests which have gone viral on social media confirmed about 30 to 40 individuals protesting outdoors the varsity whereas police stood on the entrances of the varsity. In a video, the police officers had been seen studying the assertion issued by Gary Kibble.
Islamists win once more! Policeman reads out the headmaster’s apology outdoors #Batley Grammar School to the mob who had been offended at a trainer allegedly exhibiting a caricature of prophet Mohammad! pic.twitter.com/N73wLs2Sza— Potkin Azarmehr (@potkazar) March 25, 2021
Schoolteacher suspended after protests over Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Meanwhile, the varsity authorities have suspended the trainer for exhibiting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in his class.
In an up to date assertion, the varsity mentioned, “The school unequivocally apologises for using a totally inappropriate resource in a recent religious studies lesson. The member of staff has also given their most sincere apologies.”
“We have immediately withdrawn teaching on this part of the course, and we are reviewing how we go forward with the support of all the communities represented in our school,” the assertion mentioned.
Department of Education condemns protests
Following the arbitrary suspension, the Department for Education has condemned the protests and threats, saying such protests are “completely unacceptable”. The spokesperson additionally mentioned the protests had been “in violation of coronavirus restrictions”.
“Schools are free to include a full range of issues, ideas and materials in their curriculum, including where they are challenging or controversial, subject to their obligations to ensure political balance. They must balance this with the need to promote respect and tolerance between people of different faiths and beliefs, including in deciding which materials to use in the classroom,” the spokesperson added.
The protests outdoors a college within the United Kingdom comes on the backdrop of accelerating instances of threats and intimidation being carried out by the members of Muslim communities towards the thought of free speech. Also, the protests additionally remind of the horrific killing of French trainer Samuel Patty, who was beheaded by an Islamic terrorist for exhibiting caricatures of Prophet to his college students.
The killing of French trainer Samuel Patty
In October final 12 months, a high-school trainer Samuel Paty was beheaded by an Islamic terrorist within the French capital Paris for allegedly proven caricatures of the Prophet of Islam to his college students. A Muslim youth stabbed a 47-year-old trainer in his throat whereas shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
The assaults occurred on the suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on Friday. The terrorist was recognized as an 18-year-old Muslim youth, allegedly belonging to Chechnya, Russia. Shockingly, the attacker had additionally taken to social media to put up the pictures of the sufferer’s severed head, which was later eliminated by the authorities. 
The barbaric assault on Samuel Paty was a grim reminder of how Islamists have usually used Prophet Mohammed cartoons as an excuse to hold out assaults throughout the globe. The cartoons of Prophet Mohammed have been utilized by Islamic terrorists as a justification to hold out a number of assaults particularly in Europe. 
In 2015, Islamic terrorist had attacked workplaces of Charlie Hebdo after the satirical newspaper had printed cartoons that depicted Muhammad, which is strictly prohibited in Islam.