It's a recent interview that set fire to the powder.
This Wednesday, in a press release, the Grand Mosque of Paris announces, via its rector, that it has decided to "file a complaint (against the writer Michel Houellebecq) before the public prosecutor of Paris for incitement to hatred against Muslims”.
“Michel Houellebecq affirms that Muslims are not real French people.
Muslims give him an appointment in front of the criminal court to oppose what the law says, ”attacks the rector of the mosque, Chems-eddine Hafiz.
In the sights of Muslims in France and their representatives, an interview with the writer for the magazine Front Populaire in which he dialogues with Michel Onfray.
“When 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,” Houellebecq then declared.
“Let them (the Muslims) go away”
Another passage of this very long discussion is aimed at the Great Mosque of Paris.
Houellebecq would have said there: “the wish of the French population of origin, as one says, it is not that the Moslems assimilate, but that they stop stealing from them and attacking them.
Or else, another solution, that they go away”.
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Remarks deemed " pithy, unacceptable and staggering brutality ".
“They are not intended to shed light on any public debate but to stir up discriminatory speeches and actions,” considers rector Chems-Eddine Hafiz.
The latter accuses Houellebecq of wanting, in this "meeting" of 144 pages, "to destroy the unity of the country".
To support its complaint, the Grand Mosque of Paris recalls the recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the "Zemmour case", making "the fight against all discrimination a duty".
If the press release affirms that "everyone can bring the contradiction" but that this time, "it is a question of a call for the rejection and exclusion of the Muslim component as a whole", asking for "the strict law enforcement”.
