I repeatedly referred to Hamed Abdel-Samad, a German Egyptrian apostate and son to a famous Egyptian cleric, who is threatened by a fatwa demanding his assassination.
A French book publisher who was about to release the translation of Hamed Abdel-Samads book "Der islamische Faschismus" (The Islamic Fascism), has stopped the project, quoting concerns about the safety of his workers (which Abdel-Samad accepted as a reason, saying he could not dem,and that others take the same risks for their lives as he does for his own life), and fears of spilling oil into the fire of the radical right (which Abdel-Samad rejected as a valid reason, saying that Voltaire would turn in his grave if he would learn what understanding of free opinion and free speech some people in the culture business would have 230 years later, in thios country where Voltaire once lived.
German links:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literat...a-1104945.html
Personal comment by Abdel-Samad:
http://www.achgut.com/artikel/la_fra...e_kapitulieren
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Es ist noch nicht lange her, da schrieb dieser Verleger "Je suis Charlie", heute schreibt er "Ich habe Angst, Charlie zu werden." - Not long time ago, this publisher wrote "Je suis Charlie", today he writes "I am afraid to become Charlie".
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I once talked with the man for a short time. Good man, back then when I met him he still was a bit softer, but today seeing the truth much more uncompromised - and different to so many cowards he dares to speak it out despite the threats for his life this brings. Needless to say that the Islamophile German establishment of politicians, left feuilleton and Islam-understanders hate him like the plague: he leaves nothing of their precious illusions. And nhaving been a "radical Islamist" himself and educated by his father hwo was/is cleric of fame in egypt, he knows what he talks of - better than many of those retarded self-declared Islam experts and academics that occupy our media that do not grow tired of telling us that Islam has never nothing to do with anything.
May that needed luck always be with you, Sir - and your bodyguards always on guard.