Not to take the heat off Corbyn at all- but in the name of fairness, somehow. Why is antisemitism considered wrong and punishable (and I think it should be)- but Islamophobia is rife and dandy?
There are madmen in all religions, and all sections of the poupulation- and plenty of evidence in the not so far past.
The point being that the teacher did not use the history of cartoons to depict how at the time of the Revolution they were used to mock and condemn the Nobles and the Clergy. How they were used in many wars to demonise and dehumanise the enemy. By Hitler to demonise Jews, Gypsies and the infirm. How the Brits used cartoons against their enemies too- like 'Gerry'. How later the French use cartoons and film cartoons like the Guignols to mock, deride and criticise polititians on TV, and in magasines.
He only used one form of cartoons, those depicting Mohamet to students who are marginalised and vulnerable, many of them Muslims. But he would not have dared use antisemitic materials, because the Jewish commnunities of France would have been in uproar.
France is only a secular country when it suits it. A very large proportion of French people send their kids to Private (all white) Catholic schools funded by the State. In Nice, a bastion of the National Front, those Catholic families go to Mass every Sunday.
Fact is, the actions of these radicalised madmen have become just one more excuse to marginalise, discriminate against and insult the Muslims of France- all of them. And it created the very conditions for radicalisation and hatred.
