Following the tribune of the chief rabbi published in the edition of
Figaro
on Wednesday January 4, which proposed mediation between the rector of the great mosque and Michel Houellebecq, the three men met this Thursday morning.
The meeting could have taken place at the Institut de France, but the schedule constraints of the writer who is starting the shooting of a film by Guillaume Nicloux in Guadeloupe, hastened things.
At 9 a.m., the two religious leaders and the most widely read French writer in the world met over coffee.
The rector made a point of informing him of his emotion. “
If we follow the words of Michel Houellebecq to the letter, he explains, I myself am a thief.
This essentialization is not acceptable, especially since it comes into conflict with my fight for the distinction between Muslims and Islamism.
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