A Czech secondary school has received dozens of letters demanding that a pupil should be expelled because she is a Muslim.
The headmaster of a secondary school in the northern city of Teplice in the Czech Republic has received dozens of letters demanding that a second year student at his school should be expelled because she is a Muslim. The student, Eman Ghaleb, comes from Yemen and has been living in the Czech Republic since she was five. She is a Muslim believer.
“The calls to expel this student are absolutely nonsensical and unacceptable. To demand that I should expel someone from our school for his religious belief is unreal,” said the headmaster Zdeněk Bergman.
“I am a Czech and I fear for my country and its future. Our children and our young people are our future. I do not want my children to be threatened by Muslims and by Islam. This is why I call on you not to be indifferent to our children. You must defend them from Muslim and Islamic propaganda,” says a typical letter, one of many received by Mr. Bergman.
The authors of the letters complain that the Muslim pupil is disseminating “Islamic propaganda”. The school has organised various events, including a “Muslim weekend” during which several muslims living in the Czech Republic introduced their countries. A specialist from the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences gave a lecture. Apart from a Muslim weekend, the Teplice school has also organised a week of Jewish culture, Vietnamese days and has invited representatives of Christian churches to give lectures.
“I will adhere to a thought contained in the Talmud,” said Headmaster Bergman. “You will not join the majority if it commits evil.”
