Posted on 01/03/2015 12:49:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Michel Houellebecq, who first stirred controversy with sex novel Atomised, makes waves with book describing country after Islamist becomes president.
Put France’s literary enfant terrible together with Europe’s most combustible political talking point, and sparks were always going to fly.
Michel Houellebecq, whose tale of sex, mother-hatred and cloning Atomised was the French literary scandal of the Nineties, is turning his attention to “Islamisation”.
His new novel Soumission (Submission), will not be published until January 7 but has already triggered a flurry of accusations that he is pandering to the growing Islamophobia gripping France.
It is set in 2022 and imagines the country electing a Muslim president, who goes on to convert France to his vision of society.
In a twist, he is not only able to implement his programme - but it works. France becomes more positive about its future, and more prosperous too.
Houellebecq has already been accused of aligning himself with so-called neo-réactionnaire writers and intellectuals such as Eric Zemmour and Renaud Camus who argue that France’s national identity has been irreversibly diluted by mass immigration and the growth of Islam.
One academic specialising in Islamism said the novel showed how anti-Islam feelings were not the sole preserve of a working class racist tendency, but were rooted in the country’s intellectual elite....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I fear for this future France. Hope and pray they don’t follow the US precedent.
So its a fantasy novel.
However twisted his logic (and he sounds very twisted) he’s tapped into a legitimate fear. I’m sure the book will make him a handsome sum. After that, he’ll probably lose his head by way of the religion of peace.
“....the growing Islamophobia gripping France.”
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It took France THIS long to recognize Islam’s toxic presence inside its borders?
And what are they going to do about it?
"Pandering"? It's critical.
“....France’s national identity has been irreversibly diluted by mass immigration and the growth of Islam.”
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The entire West’s identity has been irreversibly diluted by mass immigration and the growth of Islam.
The article states Ms Le Pen is not against Islam.
If MS Pen wants to retain her “female parts” she must oppose Islam.
“....France’s national identity has been irreversibly diluted by mass immigration and the growth of Islam.”
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The entire West’s identity has been irreversibly diluted by mass immigration and the growth of Islam.
The USA's identity is first going to become a sort of fragmented Latin American 3rd world one. What happens after that, and how much room Islam will have in the process is hard to say.
Here's how it goes: Barry and Moochelle retire to the south of France. Barry becomes France's first Muslim president, and "transforms" the country.
If a Kenyan can become president of this country, why not France?
I;m not sure its Islamophobia when the Islamists burn 1000 autos belonging to “infidels” to bring in the new year.
Any writer who will use the fake-psychological term “Islamophobia” gets 3 strikes immediately with me.
How long will it take America to wake up to the problems of our open borders? What are we going to do about it? So far: nothing. And many Republicans are all. VIS: Jeb Bush.
Don’t expect any change from the GOP.
Same old, same old.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
It appears that Muslims have screwed the pooch one to many times in Europe lately. I hope the backlash is swift, lasting, and effective.
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