“
It is painful to indulge in textual commentary on evidence.
“In a tribune at
Point
this Wednesday, January 4, the writer Michel Houellebecq retorted to the accusations of the Great Mosque of Paris, which announced to file a complaint against him at the end of December.
The Muslim institution, which justified its choice in an exclusive response to
Le Figaro
, accuses the author of
Submission
and
Annihilate
of "
provocation to hatred
", because of remarks of "
staggering brutality
" held during an exchange with Michel Onfray in the magazine
Front Populaire
.
“
People are arming themselves.
They get guns, take lessons in the shooting ranges.
And these are not hotheads,
affirmed 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 cafés frequented by Muslims, in short Bataclans upside down
”.
In a press release, Chems-eddine Mohamed Hafiz, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris since 2020, reacted: “
These lapidary sentences by 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 tribune at
Point
this Wednesday, Michel Houellebecq retorted at the Paris Mosque, 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 inciting racial hatred.
It was silly, everyone knows that Islam is not a race, but a religion with universal aims
", he wrote, adding that he was "
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 is created, still populated by a few 'Gallics', and even by a few very brave or very poor Jews, then I indeed think that acts of resistance will take place – that is to say terrorist acts, because that is what resistance is
, ”he hammered at Le
Point
.
And to ironize, in conclusion of his answer, that he would prefer “to
write a chapter relating a party of the neighbors being held in a charming renovated building of the door of the Chapel on the occasion of Aïd-el-Kébir.
But that's not what I see
."