France’s schools are succumbing to the Islamist threat

A 13-year-old Muslim girl was beaten unconscious outside her school gates in Montpellier in southern France on Tuesday. Her mother says she was attacked because of her religion but on this occasion most of the mainstream media has baulked at reporting the story.

That’s because Samara was a Muslim who didn’t follow her religion the way many of her classmates did. ‘My daughter dresses in European style,’ said her mother, Hassiba. ‘They called her a kafir’ (unbeliever).

Samara was also called names because she refused to wear her hair under a headscarf. She was proud of her hair. She dyed it red because it made her feel ‘free’. Her courage has been brutally punished. One of her alleged attackers was a teenage girl in a headscarf.

I first wrote about this phenomenon in these pages eight years ago, when I felt compelled to correct those in the British and American press who were indignant about the fact that France had banned the burkini from its beaches.