Schoolteachers in France are now being threatened with knives for showing French culture.

This cannot go on.

By David Averre and Elena Salvoni

A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife at a school in northern France on Wednesday, the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.

The schoolgirl is said to have challenged her teacher at the Hautes-Ournes high school in Rennes and brandished a blade in the middle of the classroom, judicial sources told French media.

Other staff members managed to restrain the girl before she was able to commit any violence, and promptly handed her over to gendarmes who were called urgently to the premises.

The motive behind the armed threat made by the student, who was born in 2011 in Marseilles, is currently unknown.

But Rennes prosecutor Philippe Astruc said the schoolgirl went to class 'with the apparent intention of killing her English teacher', adding local authorities had opened a criminal investigation into the incident.

This is the second incident in a week of Muslim 12-year-olds reacting bizarrely to Renaissance art. France was already outraged that Muslim 12-year-olds turned their heads away and refused to look at an Italian painting in art class.

The BBC:

The row began when a teacher showed Diana and Actaeon, a Renaissance-era painting portraying a mythical scene from Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Several first-year high school students, aged 11 and 12, said they were offended by the work by 17th-Century Italian painter Giuseppe Cesari, Sophie Venetitay from the Snes-FSU teachers union told AFP.

"Some students averted their gaze, felt offended, said they were shocked," Ms Venetitay said, adding that "some also alleged the teacher made racist comments" during a class discussion.

This is the image they found so shocking:

John Sexton notes that last bit -- the addition of alleging the teacher "made racist comments" -- was something the Muslim students also added in the case of beheaded French schoolteacher Samuel Paty.

Six teenagers were just convicted in his murder last week. He had been slaughtered three years by a Chechen Muslim immigrant who had heard he had shown images of Mohammad in school. He asked students to point him out so that he could kill him, and six students obliged. One was convicted of lying about the events, and five were convicted of "staking him out" for the killer.

No, he just showed a picture of a bloody "prophet" in class.

Six teenagers have been convicted in France for their roles in the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty.

Mr Paty was killed outside his school in Paris after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class on freedom of expression.

A teenage girl was found to have lied about what happened in class, while five others were guilty of identifying Mr Paty to his attacker.

The sentences from 14 months to two years are all suspended or commuted.

Mr Paty's name was disclosed on social media after caricatures published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were shown during a class he taught.

The teenage girl told her parents that Mr Paty had asked Muslim pupils to leave the room before showing the caricatures.

But she had in fact been absent from the class in question. The court found her guilty of having made false accusation charges and slanderous comments.

Five defendants, aged 14 and 15 at the time, were found guilty of staking out the teacher.

They were convicted of involvement in a group preparing aggravated violence.

Mr Paty's killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, was shot dead by police at the scene of the murder.

A second trial will open next year for eight adults also accused of complicity in the murder. These include Brahim Chnina, the father of the 13-year-old girl on trial.

So what we have here is: a week after six teens are convicted of aiding and abetting a Muslim beheading a teacher for showing pictures of Mohammad during a class on free speech, a Muslim students begin spontaneously -- ? -- protesting images that they claim offend them, and one Muslim student comes to school with a knife intending to butcher her teacher.

I remember when Paty was murdered. I watched a documentary about it. Cameras in French classrooms showed teachers asking students if that teacher deserved to be beheaded. Muslim students, knowing full well they were on camera, said oh yes, he definitely did deserve to have his head chopped off, and the next one who steps out of line will have his head chopped off, too.

This was not the minority view among the Muslim students. It was the clear, loudly, proudly exclaimed majority view.

I wish I could find that documentary but I can't. If I come across it I'll link it in the sidebar.