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IEP Grenoble: the UNEF "endangered" the two teachers by relaying their names, judge Marlène Schiappa

2021-03-08T10:43:36.728Z


The student union relayed posters with the names of two teachers from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, accused of Islam


A few months after the assassination of Samuel Paty, the names of two professors from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies (IEP) accused of Islamophobia were plastered on March 4 with collages in front of the establishment.

For Marlène Schiappa, the Minister in charge of Citizenship, questioned on BFMTV-RMC, this display put "in danger very clearly" the lives of teachers.

“We are there in heinous acts after what happened with the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty who, in the same way, had been thrown in the pasture on social networks.

We can no longer tolerate this type of fact, ”she added.

According to her, “when there are comments that are considered racist or discriminatory, there is a hierarchy to which we can report these comments, which hears the teacher and who takes sanctions if the facts are proven.

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For @MarleneSchiappa, the accusations of Islamophobia at the IEP of Grenoble "are heinous acts", the teachers "are in danger" pic.twitter.com/6zNKD5t7oa

- BFMTV (@BFMTV) March 8, 2021

And to add: “we cannot begin to say that we are going to do justice by writing the names of people on the walls, especially when we know that behind there is a risk of death.

"Marlène Schiappa called" for responsibility, particularly in relation to the UNEF, the UNEF has a responsibility: we cannot relay calls to hatred and such serious things.

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A "clumsy and dangerous" initiative

An investigation for "public insult" and "degradation" was opened by the prosecution of Grenoble after a collage of posters Thursday at the entrance of the IEP on which we could read: "Fascists in our lecture halls.

Islamophobia kills.

"The Unef whose local branch had relayed the posters, recognized Sunday an initiative" clumsy and dangerous ", reaffirming" its opposition to any hatred, to any public lynching and its attachment to freedom of expression ".

This affair is revealing, according to one of the teachers interviewed in Marianne, of the climate of tension within the school, where the debate on Islam would have become "taboo".

To find the origin of this violent action, we have to go back to the beginning of December.

One of the two professors targeted by the attacks on Thursday has been teaching German "for 25 years at the IEP".

He then joined a working group made up of teachers and students to organize the upcoming equality week, the title of which is “Racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism”.

During long exchanges by email in this group, he expressed his disagreement with the association of these terms and especially that of Islamophobia.

A "discourse anchored to the extreme right"

Among these numerous arguments, he judges that "one can doubt that an academic debate worthy of the name can take place on a catch-all concept and invented from scratch (...) I categorically refuse to suggest that the (imaginary) persecution of Muslim extremists (and other lost Muslims) today really has its place alongside millennial and almost universal anti-Semitism or racism ”.

These (long) exchanges, which Le Parisien was able to consult and which were published by the German professor on his website, are only for a lecturer, teacher-researcher in “History of the colonized Maghreb”.

In deep disagreement, he threatens to leave this working group.

He adds a copy of the other professor posted this Thursday, a lecturer.

He intervenes in several media as a political scientist and provides at the IEP an optional course on Islam and Muslims in France.

And his help to the German colleague will turn against him.

He writes to the working group which is tearing itself apart: “Charlie Hebdo was accused of Islamophobia.

Samuel Paty was accused of being Islamophobic (...) Blasphemy is Islamophobic.

Secularism is Islamophobic.

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The students will pick up on this disagreement.

At the beginning of January, the Union Syndicale (US) Sciences-po Grenoble, the majority student union here, born of a split from the UNEF with its left wing, condemns the words of the German professor "considering that Islamophobia does not" has no place in our institute ”.

And ask management to react.

For the “US” union and the struggling Sciences-Po Grenoble collective, their professor's emails are “discourse anchored to the far right”.

Source: leparis

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