Posted on 01/03/2007 1:42:19 PM PST by T.L.Sink
This past September, Robert Redeker, a French high-school philosophy teacher... and the author of several scholarly books, published an op-ed article in the newspaper Le Figaro. The piece, a response to the controversy over remarks about Islam made a week earlier by Pope Benedict XVI, was titled "What should the Free World Do in the Face of Islamist Intimidation?" It was a fierce critique of what Redeker called Islam's attempt "to place its leaden cloak over the world." If Jesus was "a master of love," he wrote, Mohammad was "a master of hatred." Of the three "religions of the book," Islam was the only one that overtly preached holy war.
"Whereas Judaism and Christianity are religions whose rites reject and delegitimize violence," Redeker concluded, "Islam is a religion that, in its own sacred text, as well as in its everyday rites, exalts violence and hatred."
Redeker... soon received a large number of threats. On an Islamic website, he was sentenced to death in a posting that, in order to facilitate a potential assassin's task, also provided his address and a photograph of his home. Since then, they [his wife and three children] have moved from city to city, under police protection.
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I guess I missed sumtin way back when.....high school philosophy?Maybe them froggies are onto sumtin?
Guess he won't be around much longer if some rag head with an attitude has anything to do about it...hope he makes it. Just think how crazy they went over a cartoon....
Meadow Muffin
Robert Redeker - a Frenchman fighting the good fight!
Indeed a remarkable article. It is amazing how they will throw any one under the bus for political expediency. Then again maybe it isn't. The writer of this needs to be encouraged to keep writing as this is his first for "Commentary"
We could give these ragheads a demo in killing. Be short and sweet.
You do realize that you just invited every non-Muslim in the world and most of the Muslims to come here, don't you?
The upcoming French national election between Sarkozy and Royal will be either a sea change or a death rattle depending on who wins.
Been done before.
I don't have a problem with Redecker coming to the States. I just pointed out some Muslims somewhere want to kill just about everyone in the world. Being under a Muslim death threat by itself is no recommendation. Last week, Saddam Hussein could claim that distinction.
The fact that this man and his family have had to go into hiding should tell everyone all they ever needed to know about Islam.
You might find this article interesting.
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