Some wicked teachers like myself would often look round their classes, note that the inattentive, disruptive elements, who were known to make teaching the rest of the kids difficult, were absent, cheer quietly inwards, and get on with actual doing summat positive for once.
Report a disruptive child for being absent ..... no, just assume that they were absent for some legitimate reason and don't bother checking them out.
Some legitimate reason?
How about skipping school to go to Iraq or Syria and fight for jihad?
I read on the Internet yesterday that a sizeable number of kids of school age in Nordrhein-Westfalen have done just that. IS/ISIL/ISIS (wharrever it calls itself in English these days - or wharrever the translation from the original Arabic now is) had become such a lure that these kids would rather go and fight for the cause (as foreign fighters) than learn algebra or chemistry or .... (well if you are a fanatical Muslim, science tends to contradict your belief system, so why study it?).
One of these kids is, apparently, 13 years old.
I have previously commented on this blog that I cannot imagine a grown adult wanting sex with someone of 13 or 14 - they are too small, far too immature, and simply not ready.
Not ready for sex but old enough to carry a Kalashnikov? Or behead an infidel (usually another Muslim actually - in political terms, infidels can be the wrong shade of the belief system). Or commit other acts of wanton violence that aren't allowed by the school rules (or the laws of most sophisticated modern nations).
You would imagine that if IS/ISIL/ISIS did have intentions of becoming a legitimate (i.e. non-rogue) state at some point, it would discourage kids that young from serving militarily? Not so (and more on IS/ISIL/ISIS further down the page). A few weeks ago (and you can check this out on the Internet as well), a 14-year-old boy served, along with his father (great parenting, huh?), as a suicide bomber in an attack carried out by them.
In the above article there was also a reference to four young Muslim women from Germany heading to Syria for romantic escapades with young jihadist men whom they had somehow or other contacted.
Young unmarried Muslim women? Romantic escapades? Even moderately liberal Muslim believers (that sounds like a contradiction in terms - "moderate", "liberal" and "Muslim" do not fit very well together, at least in a social context) would have a problem with that, and given the austere Salafist version being pushed by IS/ISIL/ISIS? The likelihood sounds like less than one in a trillion (or maybe they have been living in liberal Germany too long and mixed with too many infidels!).
Anyway at the moment there appears to be a generational divide when it comes to IS/ISIL/ISIS. This week, for the third time in as many months the German Central Council for Muslims (Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland) came out yet again and condemned IS/ISIL/ISIS as a terrorist group which was carrying out actions which are incompatible with Islam.
Similar comments have emerged in recent weeks from the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia (the head of Muslim teaching in that country - if he were a Christian, he would probably be an Archbishop or similar). And other (Sunni - and that is important) religious leaders.
I have also read numerous reports of parents trying to stop their kids from supporting this war in Iraq / Syria, and advising them in vain not to go. I have read of elder brothers telling their younger siblings that the excessive violent conduct being perpetrated is in fact Un-Islamic.
Water off a duck's back, I am afraid. These people have their own literalist version of the Koran (the one that critics of "Islamisation" in Europe like Geert Wilders also use to take pot shots at the belief system) and are not prepared to listen to any other interpretation of it.
You may not expect these kids to be that mature or that intelligent (though one story of a 20-year-old dropping out of medical school in the UK to go and fight in Syria puts that theory in doubt), but there is a very dangerous movement afoot which will take some stopping. And on a day when a potential genocide of Kurds in Northern Syria sounds ever more likely, the need to reverse the trend is both vital and urgent.
We may not like them being in school and being potentially disruptive, but we need them back there and learning something other than how to carry out pre-medieval barbaric practices with modern weaponry.
Postscript (January 3rd, 2022). Fortunately the genocide of the Syrian Kurds did not occur. The world at large owes a great deal to the bravery, guts, determination and massive sacrifice of the Kurds whose actions more than anyone brought ISIS/ISIL/IS to its knees. For which the Trump administration abandoned them to the whims of the thugs of the Erdogan government in Turkey.
It is time that the Kurds in the 4 countries into which they are divided (Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran) were given a say in determining their own future.
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