Rotterdam teacher goes into hiding because of cartoon in class | Inland

NRC reports that. The bulletin board in the teacher’s room was full of statements by spiritual teacher Krishnamurti, among others. There was also a cartoon by Joep Bertrams about the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which won the Inktspotprijs in 2015. It shows a decapitated man in a Charlie Hebdo shirt sticking out his tongue at the jihadist who just decapitated him.

A number of Muslim girls wanted the cartoon to disappear from the board. They said the teacher was guilty of “blasphemy.” A photo of the drawing appeared on the internet, secretly made by a student. The cartoon is said to be “a cartoon of our prophet” that is said to have been put up by the teacher as a provocation. “If this is not removed very quickly,” someone writes on Instagram, “then we will do this differently.” According to the police, there are also online threats against the teacher.

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