In a grandstand at Point this Wednesday, Michel Houellebecq retorted at the Mosque of Paris, affirming, in particular, that “it would be curious to imagine that my positions could have a concrete influence”.
“It is painful to indulge in textual commentary on evidence.“In a gallery at Point this Wednesday, January 4, the writer Michel Houellebecq replied to the accusations of the Great Mosque of Paris, who announced to file a complaint against him at the end of December. the muslim institution, who justified his choice in an exclusive answer to the Figaro accuses the author of Submission and D’Annihilate of “incitement to hatred“, because of the words of a “staggering brutalityheld during an exchange with Michel Onfray in the magazine Popular Front.
“People arm themselves. They get guns, take lessons in the shooting ranges. And these are not hotheads, asserted Michel Houellebecq. When the entire territories are under Islamic control, I think acts of resistance will take place. There will be attacks and shootings in mosques, in cafes frequented by Muslims, in short Bataclan upside down“. In a statement, Chems-eddine Mohamed Hafizrector of the Great Mosque of Paris since 2020, reacted: “These pithy phrases from Michel Houellebecq are unacceptable. They are not intended to inform any public debate but to stir up discriminatory discourse and action.»
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In a grandstand at Point this Wednesday, Michel Houellebecq replied to the Mosque of Paris, affirming, in particular, that “it would be curious to imagine that my positions could have a concrete influence“. “The first time she brought me to justice, twenty years ago, I was accused of provoking racial hatred. It was silly, everyone knows that Islam is not a race, but a religion with universal aims“, he wrote, adding to be”this time accused of Islamophobia, which is more relevant. Islam is a religion that does not inspire me much consideration, so to a certain extent I plead guilty; provided I add that I am a part-time Islamophobe.»
The author returned at length to his remarks concerning a possible “civil war in France“:”When an Islamist enclave has been created, still populated by a few “Gauls”, and even by a few very brave or very poor Jews, then I do indeed think that acts of resistance will take place – that is to say acts terrorists, because that’s what resistance is“, he hammered at the Point. And to ironize, in conclusion of his answer, that he would prefer “write a chapter recounting a neighbors party held in a charming renovated building at the Porte de la Chapelle on the occasion of Aïd-el-Kébir. But that’s not what I see.”
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