Houellebecq, in a photograph from 2014Marta Fernández / Europa Press
Houellebecq declared that “the need of the French just isn’t for Muslims to hitch society, however for them to cease robbing them.” He even warned that there may very well be a “Bataclan in reverse”, referring to the jihadist assault on the live performance corridor. Parisian in 2015 The author certified after his statements, the results of a six-hour interview, had been poorly condensed and promised to breed them of their entirety
The head of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, has withdrawn the criticism filed towards Michel Houellebecq that he filed on the finish of December after accusing the author of “inciting hatred” in a French publication.
Houellebecq declared that “the need of the French just isn’t for Muslims to hitch society, however for them to cease stealing from them”, in an interview with the thinker Michel Onfrai printed within the journal directed by the latter, ‘Front Populaire’.
“If complete territories actually got here below Islamist management, I believe there could be acts of resistance,” mentioned the author, who was satisfied that there could be a “Reverse Bataclan” in reference to the jihadist assault on the Parisian live performance corridor in 2015 that price life to 98 individuals.
Shortly after submitting the criticism, Hafiz agreed to fulfill with Houellebecq because of the mediation of the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia.
In the assembly, the author assured that the statements, the results of a six-hour interview, had been badly condensed and promised to breed them of their entirety, already certified, in a future publication, based on ‘Le Figaro’.
The rector of the Grand Mosque accepted Houellebecq’s statements to the reduction of Rabbi Korsia, who considers that “each events have been spared an pointless and damaging trial,” as he later defined to the French media.