The Egyptian state news agency MENA said on Sunday that the country has banned editions of two French and German newspapers, Le Figaro and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, because of articles deemed insulting to Islam. Under a decree issued by Information Minister Anas el-Feki, the two editions will not be able to enter the country, it said.
They published articles which disparaged Islam and claimed that the Islamic religion was spread by the sword and that the Prophet ... was the prophet of evil," it added. The edition of Le Figaro, dated September 19, contains an opinion piece on Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by French philosopher and high school teacher Robert Redeker.
"Merciless warrior, pillager, murderer of Jews and polygamist - that is how Mohammad portrays himself in the Koran ... Hatred and violence live in the book by which every Muslim is educated, the Koran," Redeker wrote. The edition of the German newspaper, dated September 16, contains an article by German historian Egon Flaig looking at how the Prophet Mohammad was a successful military leader. Flaig presents other arguments supporting the view that Islam has had a violent history.
Ironic, how Christians seem to be able to own up to Christianity’s own historical bloodied hands, and yet, Muslims refuse to acknowledge that Islam has a historical record for violence - either in the here and now, or the past. All of which makes me wonder if one one’s ability to remain in a constant state of psychological denial is an Islamic tradition or teaching of some standing.
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