Michel Onfray: "The Mosque of Paris should counter Houellebecq on the intellectual ground and not in court"

FIGAROVOX - The Great Mosque of Paris is filing a complaint against Michel Houellebecq for "provoking hatred against Muslims" following remarks published in the magazine

Michel ONFRAY.

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The incriminated remarks proceed from a quotation and more precisely from a quotation taken out of its context with a stealing of part of the sentence without any typographical sign indicating it.

We know that a typographical convention allows us to say that we are quoting a sentence, so it is the author who speaks: we open quotation marks and suspend the quotation with an open parenthesis, three suspension points, then a closed parenthesis , in order to signify that we have voluntarily removed a statement.

This omission takes place but it is doubled by the omission of the sign saying that it takes place!

That is to say if this sentence...

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