A Belgian teacher who converted from Islam to Catholicism denounces threats from his Muslim pupils.
Born Muslim and converted to Catholicism, he now teaches Catholic religion at a Belgian school. He is now denouncing insults and threats from Muslim pupils.
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According to the outlet Marianne, Ahmed Yetrib is a Belgian teacher of Catholic religion in the Charleroi area with a background that is particularly uncomfortable for some of his pupils: He was born into a Muslim family, converted to Catholicism in 2018 and now teaches Catholic religion.. The case erupted this June after some students discovered his videos on Islam and Christianity, which, according to his account, land it has led to a wave of insults and threats to the point of admitting that he had never felt “so uneasy”.
The shadow of the Samuel Paty case
The most serious detail is that the teacher does not present the case as a mere school controversy. Yetrib says that the threats he received made him think of Samuel Paty., the French teacher murdered in 2020 after an Islamist campaign of denunciation. The comparison is harsh, but it is precisely the one he uses to describe the fear he says he has experienced these days: that of a teacher exposed not because of his class, but for having abandoned Islam and spoken publicly about Christianity.
Yetrib does not limit himself to teaching. Through his videos, he defends the Catholic faith, explains theological issues and He openly compares Christianity and Islam from his experience as a convert.. According to Marianne, this is precisely what has sparked the reaction of some Muslim students, who Upon discovering its contents, they would have insulted and threatened him.. He is not being accused of a professional misconduct, but of having left Islam, embraced Catholicism and made it public.
His public trajectory does not begin now, nor is it limited to a few videos on social media. As early as 2022, he presented himself as an “ex-Muslim”, a theologian by training, a philosophy student and a secondary school teacher of Catholic religion. Yetrib is also linked to a Catholic outreach project that publishes short videos on theology, philosophy, Church history, biblical exegesis and questions of faith, with the desire to explain Christianity in accessible language and to discuss it from the standpoint of reason as well.
The Yetrib case touches on what Europe often prefers not to look at: the real freedom to leave Islam. In theory, any citizen can change religion, explain it and publicly defend their new faith. But when a former Muslim converts to Catholicism, becomes a Catholic religion teacher and speaks about Christianity in public, threats follow.
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