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Controversy with the rector of the Paris mosque: the passages that Michel Houellebecq chose to modify

2023-01-05T13:05:39.654Z


EXCLUSIVE – After a meeting with Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the writer wrote more precisely the contentious passages which opposed the two men. Le Figaro publishes these new paragraphs.


According to information from

Le Figaro

, the legal proceedings initiated by Chems-Eddine Hafiz against the writer could be dropped.

The rector of the Great Mosque of Paris had filed a complaint on Wednesday, December 28 against Michel Houellebecq, for “

provoking hatred against Muslims

”.

The comments referred to had been made in Michel Onfray's magazine,

Front populaire

, which reported on forty-five pages of a conversation between the writer and the philosopher.

Two excerpts taken from a long reasoning were incriminated.

"

When entire territories are under Islamic control, I think acts of resistance will take place, Houellebecq said in particular.

There will be attacks in front of mosques, in cafes frequented by Muslims, in short, upside-down Bataclans

”... A little further on, the writer stated: “

The wish of the native French population, this n it's not that Muslims assimilate, but that they stop robbing and attacking them

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Source: lefigaro

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