The Great Mosque of Paris introduced Thursday that they’re submitting a legal criticism towards French writer Michel Houellebecq over his anti-Muslim statements amid a surge of Islamophobia within the nation.
The resolution was taken after a “long conversation” between Houellebecq and one other author, Michel Onfray, and was printed within the journal Front Populaire in November, stated the assertion.
In the article, Houellebecq stated that folks in France have been “arming themselves” and will assault Muslim institutions when “entire territories fall under Islamic control.”
“People are arming themselves. They are procuring rifles and taking shooting courses … I think acts of resistance will occur when entire territories fall under Islamic control. Then, attacks and shootings will be perpetrated in mosques, coffeeshops mostly visited by the Muslims, well, Bataclan in reverse,” he stated.
For officers of the Great Mosque of Paris, these “lapidary remarks” have been “unacceptable and unbelievably brutal.”
“They do not seek to elucidate any public debate but arouse discriminatory rhetoric and acts,” it added.
The assertion famous that whereas criticizing faith was permitted in a democratic society, the feedback within the article have been “calling to reject and exclude the Muslim component in its entirety.”
“In these circumstances, the Great Mosque of Paris had decided to file a complaint … against those remarks that it considers as an act provoking hatred towards Muslims,” it added.
