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| Writer of 'anti-Islam' article gets death threats | |
| 2006-09-29 | |
| SAINT-ORENS-DE-GAMEVILLE, France — A French philosophy teacher was under police protection Thursday after receiving death threats over an article he wrote in a national newspaper that accused Islam of "exalting violence", school and police officials said. Robert Redeker has not attended classes at his secondary school near Toulouse in southern France since September 19, when his opinion column appeared in the right-wing daily Le Figaro. "He received written death threats in the form of emails. On the face of it they were pretty serious," said the lycée's headmaster Pierre Donnadieu. Police confirmed the threat but refused to comment on the protection Redeker is receiving. Under the heading "In the face of Islamist intimidation, what must the free world do?", Redeker described the Koran as a "book of extraordinary violence" and Islam as "a religion which ... exalts violence and hate". Likening Islam to Communism, he said that "violence and intimidation are the methods used by an expansionist ideology ... to impose its leaden cloak on the world".
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| Posted by:ed |
| #14 In the letter published in the linked article above, he complains that despite the threats (serious enough for the DST to be involved, IE counter-intelligence, not just a police matter), he gets no support from the gvt, and has to pay for all the expenses himself, including having to move his family to a new home because the authorities order him so for his own safety. [cue Twilight Zone theme] How dispicable to see the French government mistreat a national treasure. Namely, their last remaining citizen with a full grown spine. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-29 17:03 |
| #13 Protection from a police force which can't protect themselves - how comforting that must be. In the letter published in the linked article above, he complains that despite the threats (serious enough for the DST to be involved, IE counter-intelligence, not just a police matter), he gets no support from the gvt, and has to pay for all the expenses himself, including having to move his family to a new home because the authorities order him so for his own safety. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-09-29 16:51 |
| #12 Btw, apparently threats were quite precise, police has located extremist websites where his picture, his workplace, his adress and its location are given, along with a bona fide fatwa to death. See http://www.objectif-info.com/chroniques/redeker2.htm (french article in which the writer notes the "Arab Policy" AFP's bias, smearing, and comdamnation of this man. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-09-29 16:45 |
| #11 There's a right-wing daily in France? Le Figaro used to be right of center, or even more than that (back in the early 80's, it was the playground for the new right thinkers, and its companion mag was until recently directed by Alain Griotteray, a true blooded-conservative), but now it's an another mainstream newspaper, with the occasional guest op-ed (like in this case), and a few editorialists who dare not to be PC. Only real right wing newspapers I can think of in France are Présent (catholic), Rivarol and National-hebdo (the more or less FN paper); of course, unlike "big" (fat) newspapers, they get zero subsidies by the gvt, direct (most of french dailies are kept on life support by subsidies) or indirect (IE useless advertising for state monopolies paid as a disguised funding), and are very small business (IIRC, the editorial team at Présent is 9 people, as opposed to 280 or so in all for leftist libération). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-09-29 16:40 |
| #10 Protection from a police force which can't protect themselves - how comforting that must be. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-29 15:58 |
| #9 There's a right-wing daily in France? |
| Posted by: Sheik Yerbuti 2006-09-29 15:22 |
| #8 Writer of 'anti-Islam' article gets death threats But, of course. We would expect anything else? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-29 11:32 |
| #7 aggressive criticism |
| Posted by: Thoth 2006-09-29 10:51 |
| #6 ". . .before our world grows a collective spine and tells Islam to pound hot sand . . ." C'mon Zen, you know the answer to this. The world will never grow a collective spine. Pockets of citizens will or already have and will defend themselves and work on killing the threats to civilization wherever they come from. The vast majority of all peoples will just go along with whomever has the biggest club. That will be us if we work hard enough. |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-09-29 08:55 |
| #5 They accuse him of "exalting violence", and they're more than happy to accomodate his wishes. |
| Posted by: Glulet Unineting6551 2006-09-29 07:11 |
| #4 How much more of this shit it going to take before our world grows a collective spine and tells Islam to pound hot sand up it whiney ass? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-29 06:21 |
| #3 You were misinformed. |
| Posted by: Richard Blaine 2006-09-29 05:47 |
| #2 I thourght it was a religion of peace and harmony????!!! |
| Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867 2006-09-29 05:35 |
| #1 Gee, yet again more threats of death for calling Islam violent. Of course, it's probably radical Christians issuing the threats. Just ask Rosie O'Donnel. |
| Posted by: AuburnTom 2006-09-29 00:22 |