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?JE SUIS SAMUEL:? French rally by thousands after islamic immigrant beheads history teacher; NYT?

By Ed Driscoll

?JE SUIS SAMUEL:? French rally by thousands after islamic immigrant beheads history teacher; NYT writes this instead.

Here?s an actual paragraph from that article that even I, even knowing what paper it is, still find hard to believe went to print:

Seizing on the symbolic nature of an attack against a high school teacher, and reprising anti-Islamist themes he has lately emphasized, Mr. Macron said the teacher had been ?the victim of a terrorist, Islamist attack.?

I think that’s more of a pounce than a seize, but in any case, as Jim Treacher tweeted:

Exit quote: ?This interview with a student in his class is in French, but this quote was worth the post: ?We must continue to learn [?] otherwise the terrorists have won.??

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 18, 2020 (boomark / email).