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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1786)9/29/2006 5:19:13 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 20106
 
Lazarus Long



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1786)9/29/2006 9:34:02 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Respond to of 20106
 
Apparently freedom of speech is not found in the koran.....

French critic of Islam flees threats
New York Times ^ | 9/29/2006 | Elaine Sciolino

iht.com

PARIS A public high school philosophy teacher and writer who attacked the Prophet Muhammad and Islam in a newspaper commentary has gone into hiding under police protection after receiving a series of death threats, including one diffused on a radical Islamist online forum.

Robert Redeker, 52, wrote in the newspaper Le Figaro 10 days ago that Muhammad was "a merciless warlord, a looter, a mass-murderer of Jews and a polygamist." He also called the Koran "a book of incredible violence."

Redeker also compared Islam unfavorably with Christianity and Judaism and criticized the hostile reaction to a recent speech by Pope Benedict XVI that seemed to link Islam and violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ....