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Robert Redeker: “Legal proceedings against Michel Houellebecq, an attack on freedom of thought”

2022-12-30T15:51:24.083Z


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - The philosopher, who was the victim of a fatwa obliging him to live for a time under police protection, supports Michel Houellebecq, targeted by a complaint from the Grand Mosque of Paris for "provoking hatred against Muslims".


Author of numerous books,

Robert Redeker 

has notably published “Le Soldat impossible” (Éditions Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2014), “L’Éclipse de la mort” (Éditions Desclée de Brouwer, 2017) and “Les Sentinelles d’Humanité.

Philosophy of heroism and holiness” (Desclée de Brouwer, 2020).

Last work published: "Sport, I love you, me neither" (Editions Robert Laffont, coll. "Homo ludens", 112 p., 10 €).

The German philosopher Johan Gottlieb Fichte discovered in 1793 what the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris still ignores, if we judge by the complaint he filed against Michel Houellebecq, namely that the freedom to think is divine.

Let's listen to Fichte: “

It is both a human and divine truth that man has inalienable rights, that freedom of thought is one of these rights

”.

What does that mean?

That insulting and fighting freedom of thought is blasphemy, that such anger amounts to offending at the same time the divine part that exists in man and, indirectly...

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Source: lefigaro

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