Une menace de mort court contre un courageux professeur

A sign of the commitment to the right of free speech, and a warning about freedom's enemies who have come out of the woodwork:

There have been death threats against a courageous philosophy professor, Robert Redeker, and his family. It is serious enough that a Special Services branch of the Anti-terror Police instructed him to not sleep in the same place twice.

These death threats began a day a Mozart Opera was banned in Germany because the production includes display of the decapitated heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad. It was a few days after Pope Benedict's speech on the impossibility of a rational link between God and violence. Robert Redeker has just announced that none of the teachers labor union will be supporting him in any way, and nor would the Ministry of Education. Show him that he is not alone!

You can post comments (look at the end of the page) and also print the petition and its signatories to send it for example to: the Elysée, the National Ministry of Education, legislators of the UMP, the PS parties, newspapers, and radio and television stations.

The Ministry of Education and the Teachers’ Unions are abandoning him out of fear and vanity. The petition can be found here.

You can put all the protests and antics, all that anti-this, anti-that, anti-everything hysteria and abuse of west values in perspective very easily: it’s all about our precious and vulnurable freedoms. The anti-this, anti-that crowd is caving-in to the notion that free speech is not worth defending if you think you can buy yourself another day here or there. The first of those idiots who claims to care about human rights should have to think about what they’re doing when they won’t come to the aid of a confrere savant who’s life is being threatened.