u.k. department for education has defended the teacher. it is never acceptable to threaten the wing to mandates teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he she has emerged schools are free to include a full range of issues ideas and materials in their curriculum included with the challenge in a controversial subject to they obligations to ensure political balance outrage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of samuel paddy a history teacher he was beheaded by a terrorist after showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his pupils during a discussion on freedom of expression to him from christian concern and. a political and social commentator locked horns over the issue raised. this could be very easily turning into some kind of a power keg and you do not throw that matches into such things we've seen in france and in many european countries the rise of the far right we've seen some 2 tier civil rights system pushing against islam pushing against muslims marginalizing them and it's open