The checks are part of a recently introduced five-point plan by Social Democrat (SPÖ) Education Minister Claudia Schmied checking teaching standards, including a directive that all Muslim teachers have to be fluent German speakers.

Vienna’s Stadtschulrat city school council said today (Weds) small language deficits were found in the checks of the capital’s 169 Islamic teachers conducted over the last few days.

Vienna authorities had a close look at eleven teachers who do not hold a German degree. Three of them were ordered to sit additional German classes while the others proved to have excellent German, it was announced.

The five-point plan was introduced after Education Minister Schmied banned a Muslim man in February from teaching his religion at a Vienna secondary school after he distributed anti-Semitic leaflets to pupils.

Schmied ordered the city’s school authorities to take action against the man who had been teaching at the Cooperative Secondary School (KMS) in Brüßlgasse in the district of Ottakring.

He reportedly distributed anti-Semitic leaflets to his students. The flyers contained a list of allegedly “Jewish” firms from which, the man told the students, they should not buy anything.

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If this doesn’t bring the Front National to an end, nothing will. I would almost venture to guess that Le Pen is doing this deliberately to sink his party so that no one, not even his daughter Marine, will ever take the reins of what he must consider his own private possession.

Such an event must be regarded in several different ways, simultaneously. First, Dieudonné derives intense pleasure from throwing the sh.. on the fan. He has learned that Jew-hatred is a thriving industry, that he attracts a public who calls him their hero, that he opens old wounds, and that, through the ruse of claiming he has been denied his right of freedom of speech, he wins support among people who are opposed to France’s laws against Holocaust denial.

The trouble is: these laws are very much part of the problem. You cannot privilege one group by mandating that it is a crime punishable by fines and prison terms to deny the evil that was done to them.

Story:  http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3716

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:

Dieudonné has a long history of making anti-Semitic comments and then denying he is an anti-Semite. His grotesque onstage provocation of loudly applauding France’s most infamous Holocaust denier and urging the crowd to join him puts that question to rest.

The French entertainment industry has an opportunity to demonstrate that such views have no place in French society. Having solidly established his reputation as an unabashed bigot, we hope reputable theaters and other performance centers will take into consideration Dieudonné’s bigotry before providing him platforms from which to insult Jews.

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolocaustDenial_83/5429_83.htm