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Writer of 'anti-Islam' article gets death threats
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".
In any sort of just world, this would be the occasion for millions in the West to take to the streets, seething and howling, demanding the guilletine for those who would insult our principles of liberty, our freedom of the press, and our dignity as Frenchies or Merkins or Brits.

Posted by: ed 2006-09-29
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=167198