In this case, it is the mother, who has kept the second child, who relies on the educator to help her break the father’s influence. “She expresses her concern about her husband’s radicalism. In fact, he asks the education authorities to have his children’s hair shorn according to religious rules. She ended up making the same request as the husband. As a professional, I was not able to position myself and respond. I didn’t really understand her request, even though she shared with me her concern about her husband’s radicalisation and her request seemed very paradoxical.”
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The special needs teacher Nour reports what she has been told by children: ‘My mum told me that I can’t listen to music …’; ‘My dad tells me that we are not like you, you are infidels …’; ‘My mum told me that I can’t dance like the girls in my class …’. “; “My dad told me that you can’t be a Muslim in France because the French don’t respect our religion …”; “My mum told me that I can’t talk to the boys …”; “My mum and dad want me to go to a school for Muslims …”; . We can note that most of the statements transmitted by the parents of these minors identify them as different children for whom different conditions must apply than for children in French society. One father told Nour: “I joined the Islamic State so that my children would not grow up among infidels”. Marianne
