GagWatch

Robert Redeker, the French philosophy teacher who was threatened after suggesting that Islam might be violent has resigned from his teaching job.

Redeker, 52, received several death threats by e-mail after publishing a virulent attack on Islam in a column for Le Figaro newspaper last September.

In the article, the high-school teacher called the Koran a book of “incredible violence”, described Prophet Mohammad as a “merciless warlord, a looter, a butcher of Jews and a polygamist” and said Islam “exalts violence and hate.”

The ensuing threats forced Redeker, who had taught in the southern French city of Toulouse, to live in hiding with armed police protection.

So far, two men have been arrested over the death threats.

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