Michel Houellebecq and the tyranny of Islamist sensitivity
They’re coming for Michel Houellebecq again. The rumpled, chain-smoking laureate of misery is once more in the crosshairs of the French state for causing offense. I’ll give you one guess who he’s offended. That’s right: Muslims. Islam really has become the premier snowflake religion, a faith so exquisitely fragile that even a grumpy novelist puffing on a Gauloise in a Parisian cafe can give its clerics a fit of the vapors. If a faith cannot survive a mordant Frenchman calling it silly without going crying to the courts, then the problem is the faith, not those who mock it Houellebecq has been formally charged by a judge in Nanterre, near Paris, for comments he made in 2022.
