Faced with Islamist intimidations, What Must the free world do?

Article in Le Figaro by Robert Redecker Published on September 19th, 2006 :

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(Robert Redecker is a philosopher. Professor at the secondary school Pierre-Paul-Riquet in Saint-Orens of Gammeville. Depression and philosophy is going to publish Editions Pleins Feux).. 

This following article made the muslims so angry that Robert Redecker now lives under permanent police protection. (See e-mail to his friend in the bottom of the text)

The reactions aroused by Benoît XVI’s analysis of Islam and violence jcome within the framework of this Islam’s attempt to stifle the West’s most precious value and that exists in no Moslem country: the freedom to think and to express oneself.

Islam tries to impose its rules upon Europe: opening swimming pools at certain hours exclusively to women, forbidding caricatures of this religion, requiring particular dietary provisions for  Moslem children in school canteens, fighting to wear the Islamic headscarf in schools, accusing free spirits of islamophobia.

How to explain the G-string ban on Paris Beach this summer? Strange was the argument advanced: risk of “disturbing law and order ». Did that mean that bands of frustrated young people risked becoming violent at the sight of beauty? Or were we afraid of Islamist demonstrations, in the form of virtue brigades, around Paris-Beach?

Yet, the failure to ban the wearing of the veil, the chador and the burka in the street, because of the reprobation aroused by this supporting of oppression against women, is more apt to « disturb law and order » than the G-string. It is not out of order to think that this ban reveals an Islamization of minds in France, a more or less conscious submission to the dictates of Islam. Or, at least, that it results from insidious Muslim pressure on French minds. Islamization of minds: the same people who protested the inauguration of a Jean-Paul-II Square in Paris do not oppose the building of mosques. Islam tries to force Europe to comply with its vision of humanity.

As formerly with communism, the West finds itself under ideological surveillance. Just like dead communism, Islam presents itself as an alternative for the western world. Like former communism, in order to conquer minds, Islam plays on a sensitive chord. It boasts of a legitimacy which troubles Western consciences, attentive to others: to be the voice of the planet’s poor. Yesterday, the voice of the poor claimed to come from Moscow; today it is supposed to come from Mecca! Today again, intellectuals embody this eye of the Koran, as yesterday they embodied the eye of Moscow. They excommunicate for islamophobia, as yesterday for anticommunism.

In its specifically Western attitude of openness toward  others, a secularization of Christianity is revealed, the basis of which can be summed up as follows: I must always let the other go first. The Westerner, as heir of Christianity, is the one who opens his soul. He takes the risk of appearing weak. Just like communism in the past,  Islam considers generosity, open-mindedness, tolerance, the gentleness, freedom for women, freedom of mores, democratic values, as so many signs of decadence.

He wants to exploit such weaknesses through « useful idiots », those good consciences full of good intentions, in order to impose the Koranic order on the Western world itself.

The Koran is a book of incredible violence. In the Encyclopédia Universalis, Maxime Rodinson states some truths as important as they are taboo in France. On the one hand, « in Medina, Mohammed revealed qualities unsuspected of political and of military leadership  (…) He resorted to private war, a common institution in Arabia (…) Muhammad soon sent small groups of his partisans to attack Meccan caravans, thereby punishing his unbelieving fellow countrymen and at the same time acquiring rich booty »

On the other hand, « Muhammad took advantage of this success to eliminate from Medina, by massacring it, the last Jewish tribe which remained there, the Qurayza, which he accused of suspect behavior ». Finally, « after the death of Khadidja, he married a widow, Sawda, a good housewife,  and also a little girl, Aisha, who was scarcely  ten years old. His erotic tendencies, long contained, led him to contract some ten marriages simultaneously ».

Exalting violence: merciless commander in war , looter, slaughterer of Jews and polygamists, thus we see Mohammed through the Koran.

Indeed, the Catholic Church is not exempt from reproach. Its history is filled with black pages, for which it later repented. The Inquisition, the witch-hunts, the execution of philosophers Bruno and Vanini, of those “wrong-thinking” Epicureans, of the Chevalier de la Barre for impiety, as late as the XVIIIth century, do not plead in its favour. But we see what differentiates Christianity from Islam: it is always possible to turn evangelical values, the gentleness of Jesus against the Church when it goes adrift.

None of the faults of the Church has its roots in the Gospel. Jesus is non violent. The return to Jesus is a recourse against the excesses of the ecclesiastical institution. Recourse to Mohammed, on the contrary, strengthens hatred and violence. Jesus is a master of love, Mohammed a master of hatred.

The stoning of Satan each year in Mecca is not merely a superstitious phenomenon. It is not merely a crowd playing with barbarity. Its range is anthropological. Here is indeed a rite, to which every Muslim is asked to submit himself, inscribing violence in the heart of the believer as a sacred duty.

This stoning, annually accompanied by the trampling to death of some believers, sometimes several hundreds, is a rite that nurtures an archaic violence.

Instead of eliminating this archaic violence, in imitation of Judaism and Christianity, by neutralizing it (Judaism begins by refusing human sacrifice, i.e., the beginning of civilization, Christianity transforms sacrifice into the eucharist), Islam makes a nest for it, in the warmth of which it will grow. Where Judaism and Christianity are religions whose rites ward off violence, deligitimate it, Islam is a religion which, in its very sacred text, as well as in some of its commonplace rites, exalts violence and hatred.

Hatred and violence inhabit the book in which every Muslim is educated, the Koran. As during the cold war, violence and intimidation are the means used by an ideology, Islam, whose vocation is to cover the world with its iron curtain. Benoît XVI is learning by cruel experience. As in the past, we must call the West ” the free world ” by comparison with the Muslim world, and just as then, the opponents of this ” free world “, zealous servants of the eye of the Koran, teem within it.

Email from Robert Redecker to Andre Glucksmann,

Dear André,
I am now in a catastrophic personal situation. Numerous, very precise death threats were sent to me, and I was condemned to death by organizations of the al-qaïda sphere of influence.
THE UCLAT and the DST are charged with my safety,  but I am no longer allowed to live at home (on sites condemning me to death there is a plan showing how to come to my house to kill me, there is my photo, that of my places of work,  telephone numbers, and the act of condemnation).
But at the same time nobody provides me with a place to stay. I am obliged to beg for two nights here, two nights there … I am under permanent police protection. I have to cancel all planned lectures. And the authorities oblige me to move constantly. I am another homeless person. The result is an insane financial situation, everything is at my own expense, including a month’s or two, two removals, notarial fees, etc. … It is very sad.
I exercised a constitutional right, and I am punished for it, on the territory of the Republic. This affair is also an attack against national sovereignt; foreign laws, decided on by criminal fanatics, punish me for having exercised a French constitutional law, and I undergo, in France, tremendous damages.
Best regards