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During World War II , Garaudy was imprisoned in Algeria , as a Prisoner Of War of Vichy France ; he was a member of the French Communist Party who tried to reconcile Marxism with Roman Catholicism in the 1970s, and then abandoned both doctrines in favour of Sunni Islam when he became Muslim in 1982, taking his new name. He currently lives in Spain .

In 1998, a French court found him guilty of and Persian , and a Sudan ese lawyer, Faruk M. Abu Eissa, assembled a five-man legal team to support Garaudy at his trial in Paris. The Iran ian government paid some of Garaudy's fine.

Garaudy is also known to be a friend of Abbé Pierre . The year of Garaudy's conviction, Abbé Pierre endorsed the ''Founding Myths...'' and also compared the Holocaust to the supposed "atrocities" of the ancient Israelite s.


WORKS

Garaudy has written over 20 books, including:

  • ''Do we need God?'' (''Avons-nous besoin de Dieu?'')

  • ''God is dead'' (''Dieu est mort'')

  • ''The grandeur and decadences of Islam''

  • ''Islam and integrism''

  • ''Call to the living''

  • ''Who do you say that I am?''

  • ''Towards a war of religion''

  • ''The Founding Myths of Modern Israel''