The integration policy spokesman of the Hessian Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary group, Ismail Tipi, has warned against the Islamisation of primary school children. “It is high time when children threaten teachers in primary school, when they draw jihadists in art lessons, when they say they want to be ‘holy warriors’. If we don’t act in time, we will have more problems with a new generation of jihadists in the future than we have today,” the 62-year-old member of the state parliament wrote on Twitter on Monday.
It is very difficult to bring children who have grown up with the “sick ideology of the Salafists” back to the democratic values of the country, he said. “That’s why preventive measures are needed as early as primary schools, also to enable free development on the basis of our democracy and to counteract the emergence of a parallel society.”
In the aftermath of the assassination of the French teacher Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020, pupils in Germany also attracted attention with radical Islamist statements. In Hamburg, after a minute’s silence for the murdered teacher, pupils defended the crime, and in Berlin, an eleven-year-old threatened to cut off his teacher’s head as well.
On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a teacher working in Evreux, France, had been beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen who had arrived in the country as a refugee between 2007 and 2010, after he had shown Mohammed cartoons in class. The 47-year-old father of a family was the target of hostility from families of Muslim pupils as well as colleagues before his murder.