There’s a big story in France right now about a high school principal who decided to retire after being sent multiple death threats online by angry Islamists. The principal in question recently had some sort of altercation with a group of female students wearing head scarves in school. Since 2004, France has banned the headscarf and other religious head coverings under its policy of laïcité, or secularism. There are various stories about exactly what happened in this instance.
Officials say the incident occurred on Feb. 28 at the Lycée Maurice-Ravel when the school’s principal asked three students to remove their head scarves on school grounds. Two of the students complied, but a third refused, causing an “altercation,” according to the Paris prosecutor’s office…
The student told investigators that the principal had pushed her and hit her arm, but the Paris…
