(NL Times) A teacher from the Emmauscollege in Rotterdam went into hiding because he was threatened over a cartoon that hung in his classroom, according to newspaper NRC.
The cartoon was drawn by cartoonist Joep Bertram about the attack on satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. It depicted a decapitated man in a Charlie Hebdo shirt sticking his tongue out at the jihadist who beheaded him. According to NRC, the cartoon hung in the classroom for five years.
After the school commemorated French teacher Samuel Paty on Monday, a group of Muslim girls asked for the cartoon to be removed. According to the newspaper, they said the lecturer was guilty of blasphemy and refused to listen to explanations that the cartoon depicted a jihadist, not the prophet Muhammad.
