The Grand Mosque of Paris announced Wednesday that it will file a complaint against Michel Houellebecq. In a press release posted on Twitter, the mosque specifies that it has initiated these legal proceedings as a result of “very serious remarks about Muslims in France” made by the writer in a recent interview for a special issue of the magazine. Popular front.
In this press release, signed by the rector Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the great mosque points out several excerpts from this interview held in November between the novelist and the founder of this magazine, the philosopher Michel Onfray, which it considers “unacceptable”.
“When entire territories are under Islamic control, I think there will be acts of resistance. There will be attacks and shootings in mosques, in cafes frequented by Muslims, in short, Bataclans in reverse”, says Michel Houellebecq during this interview.
And to add: “The desire of the native French population, as they say, is not for Muslims to assimilate, but for them to stop robbing and attacking them. Or, another solution, that they leave”.
Words “of astonishing brutality”
The Grand Mosque of Paris denounces these statements by Michel Houellebecq, which according to it are “astonishing brutality” and claims to have filed a complaint against the writer “before the Paris prosecutor for provoking hatred against Muslims.”
“Michel Houellebecq affirms that Muslims are not true French. The Muslims give him an appointment before the criminal court to oppose what the law says, ”says the rector of the mosque.
To support its point, the Grand Mosque of Paris recalls in its press release the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the “Zemmour case”. On December 20, the former polemicist was sacked by the international court after challenging a conviction for anti-Muslim comments made in 2016.
Source: BFM TV
