There was a commotion last Monday in the teacher’s class. Some Muslim girls saw a cartoon in his classroom and spoke of ‘blasphemy’. They wanted the drawing to be removed.
The teacher tried to make it clear to the girls that the man in the cartoon is a jihadist, and not the prophet, the NRC writes. That did not get through to them.
Since 2015
The drawing has been there since 2015, according to the newspaper, which spoke to those involved in the school. It is a prize-winning cartoon about the attack on Charlie Hebdo, by the Dutch illustrator Joep Bertrams. It features a headless man in a Charlie Hebdo shirt. He sticks his tongue out at the jihadist who killed him.
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The print probably caught the attention of the students after the murder of the French teacher Samuel Paty, who hung Mohammed cartoons and that had to pay with death.
Declaration made
The photo of the print at the Rotterdam school was circulated on social media and, according to the school, has been completely taken out of context. Online threats came against the teacher, so that he is now in hiding.
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The school and teacher have reported this, but no one has been arrested yet. Police are reporting that there is one ‘substantial’ digital criminal investigation has started to find out who the threats come from.
The school has now informed the students and their parents and a local police officer is walking around ‘to find a connection’. In addition, a care team is available for students who need it. The school emphasizes that it is important to ‘keep talking to each other’.
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