“I apologize to any Muslims this text may have offended – that is, I’m afraid, pretty much all Muslims. […] I renounce this idiotic text without hesitation,” writes the writer Michel Houellebecq in his book A few months in my life. October 2022 – March 2023 published this Wednesday, May 24 by Flammarion editions.
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“People are arming themselves. They get guns, take courses in the shooting ranges. […] When entire territories are under Islamic control, I think acts of resistance will take place. There will be attacks and shootings in mosques, in cafes frequented by Muslims. […] The wish of the native French population, as they say, is not for Muslims to assimilate, but for them to stop robbing and attacking them. Or else, another solution, let them go, ”he said in particular during a discussion between the essayist Michel Onfray and him, published in the magazine Front populaire in December 2022.
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Today, Houellebecq is changing tack. “I think more and more that the problem is not Islam, it is delinquency. Delinquents are so because their nature leads them towards evil and, when they engage in jihad, it is to be able to do even more evil, Islam is only a pretext. They can have access to serious weapons, which cannot be found in the suburbs, they can torture and decapitate, they are happy, ”he told the Point.
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And to add: “I was taken in a collective stupidity, there is a whole speech which developed on a link between Islam and delinquency which is simply false. The assiduous practice of a religion, whatever it is, does not lead to delinquency, these are two radically divergent paths of life. »
