Bird’s-eye view of how the little sweetie War Gods have conquered the world, piece by piece, bit by bit: French academic Robert Redeker has been sentenced to death on an Islamicist website. To help potential assassins the site gives his address and a photo of his home….MORE >>>>
This past September, Robert Redeker, a French high-school philosophy teacher at Saint-Orens-de-Gameville (a small city near Toulouse) and the author of several scholarly books, published an op-ed article in the newspaper Le Figaro. The piece …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.”
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Denunciations of Redeker’s “insult of the prophet” spread across the Internet…. Redeker … soon received a large number of threats by letter and e-mail. On an Islamist 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.... On [police] advice, Redeker, his wife, and three children fled their home and took shelter in a secret location. Since then, they have moved from city to city, at their own expense, under police protection.
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[T]he vast majority of responses (by the French), even when couched as defenses of the right to free speech, were in fact hostile to the philosophy teacher.
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To be sure, Redeker’s language had not been gentle. But since when has that been a requirement of intellectual discourse in France?
How did France reach this point? The first and most immediate explanation is that the country is about to enter an important electoral season, with races for the presidency and legislature scheduled for May of this year. As many as five million Muslims reside on French territory….
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thnx to adamci for the foto
Another example of how we need to get down under the idea that anyone has the right to kill another human and root it out for good. Yaj's followers are rife with their sense of entitlement. I don't care who or what you worship, you have no right to kill someone for disagreeing with you.
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs to shake these idiots and tell them THEY MIGHT BE WRONG! What if they're killing for a mistake?! Even if there ever was or is an infallible prophet, that infallibility doesn't carry over to the people doing the killing.
This is where religious moderates come in, I think. Moderates need to recognize that their support of their deadly holy books gives their fundies the go-ahead to follow scripture literally.
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