Muslims Once Again Proving a Critic Right

Posted on October 2, 2006

We read:

“A philosophy teacher today described how he was forced into hiding after a newspaper article in which he attacked Islam provoked death threats against himself and his family.

Robert Redeker, 52, from Toulouse in south-west France, is receiving round-the-clock police protection and changing addresses every two days, after publishing an article describing the Koran as a “book of extraordinary violence” and Islam as “a religion which … exalts violence and hate”.

He told French media today that he had no regrets about writing the article and that it was part of his job as a philosophy teacher to ask difficult questions.”

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Above post crossposted from Tongue Tied

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2 Responses to “Muslims Once Again Proving a Critic Right”

kerwin_brown on October 2nd, 2006 10:11 am

I think even the radical liberals may be catching on to the idea that Islam is not a religion of peace.
Sailnsouth on October 2nd, 2006 4:41 pm

This is a letter to the editor responding to comments made by Bishop Robert Morino about Muslims, I could not have put these thoughts any better.

Annie Laurie Gaylor: BIBLE IS FULL OF GOD-ATTRIBUTED ATROCITIES

A letter to the editor

Dear Editor: Bishop Robert Morlino’s defense of the pope’s recent comments on the Muslim religion (Sept. 16) insisted: “Killing the innocent and violence are contrary to reason, and God, who never acts contrary to reason, would never authorize that.”

Has Bishop Morlino read the Bible? There is no other book in which life is so cheap! Killing in the “Good Book” is of biblical proportions.

It takes eight pages in Ruth Hurmence Green’s book, “The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide to the Bible,” just to list the mass killings ordered, committed or approved by the biblical deity. These range from drowning all but eight of the world’s human inhabitants to merciless scorched-earth commandments to “utterly destroy” other nations (Deut. 7:1-2). There are countless biblical edicts to kill the innocent.

The pope got in trouble for quoting a 14th-century Persian scholar who said Muhammad commanded that faith be “spread by the sword.” It should be pointed out that Jesus said something similar: “I came not to bring peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:34)

The Christian Bible, the Hebrew Bible and the Koran share the same Abrahamic tradition. Each so-called “holy” book contains barbaric and bloodthirsty teachings which have spawned wars, persecution and strife in the name of a god. Peace-loving and civilized societies must rise above these primitive teachings by bolstering the wall of separation between religion and government.

Annie Laurie Gaylor Co-president Freedom From Religion Foundation Madison

Published: September 21, 2006