Түүнийг 2022 оны ярилцлагад хэлсэн үг нь ялгаварлан гадуурхалт, үзэн ядалт, хүчирхийлэлд өдөөн турхирсан гэх хэрэгт холбогдуулан шалгаж байна.
Нантер хотын шүүх арваннэгдүгээр сарын 10-нд Францын зохиолч Мишель Уэльбекийг “ялгаварлан гадуурхалт, үзэн ядалт, хүчирхийлэлд өдөөн турхирсан хэрэгт хамжигчаар оролцсон” гэх үндэслэлээр яллагдагчаар татжээ. Түүнд холбогдох хэрэг нь 2022 онд Front Populaire сэтгүүлд өгсөн ярилцлагадаа Ислам болон Франц руу чиглэсэн их хэмжээний цагаачлалын талаар хэлсэн үгтэй холбоотой байна.
Францын сүм хийдүүдийн холбоо болон Арьс өнгөөр ялгаварлан гадуурхах үзлийн эсрэг, ард түмнүүдийн найрамдлын төлөө хөдөлгөөн Уэльбек, ярилцлага авсан сэтгүүлч, нийтэлсэн сэтгүүлийн эрхлэгчийн эсрэг гомдол гаргажээ. Уэльбек ярилцлагадаа исламын хяналтад бүхэл бүтэн нутаг дэвсгэр орвол хүчирхийллийн эсэргүүцэл гарч болзошгүй гэж хэлсэн бөгөөд цагаачид хууль, хүмүүсийг хүндэтгэх ёстой, эс бөгөөс Францыг орхих нь зохистой гэж үзэж байгаагаа илэрхийлсэн байна.
Зохиолчийн өмгөөлөгчид түүний хэлсэн үгэнд хүчирхийлэлд уриалсан агуулга, тэр дундаа далд утга байгаагүй гэж мэдэгджээ. Тэд мөн оюуны хэлэлцүүлгийг шүүхээр шийдвэрлэх явдал нэмэгдэж байгаад Уэльбек харамсаж буйг уламжилсан байна.
Хэрэг Францад хэдэн долоо хоног үргэлжилсэн жагсаал, үймээний үеэр үүсжээ. Нийтлэлд дурдсанаар, даатгалд хамрагдсан эд хөрөнгийн хохирол нэг тэрбум еврогоос давж, аравдугаар сарын 17-нд 1,000 гаруй цагдаа гэмтэж, 2,500 орчим бизнесийн үйл ажиллагаа хохирсон байна.
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France’s cities are burning. For weeks, their populace has been terrorized by so-called protesters, who are smashing store windows, lighting cultural landmarks on fire, and assaulting citizens who stand up to them.
And yet the French legal system is spending its time charging writers for having an opinion about such behavior.
On Nov. 10, iconic French novelist Michel Houellebecq was charged with hate speech for comments made four years ago in a 2022 interview with Front Populaire in which he criticized Islam and expressed concerns about mass immigration into France.
It’s a disgusting inversion of justice — and an indication that a nation being torn apart from within is more concerned with thought crimes of its citizens than the actions of hooligans intent on destroying civilization itself.
The supposed hate incident involves mere words — including Houellebecq’s expressed fear that “when entire territories come under Islamist control … [violent] acts of resistance will take place.”
The author lives in Paris, where one in five residents was an immigrant as of 2023.
He went on to argue that “the wish of the population with French roots” is “for the violence to decrease, for [Muslim immigrants] to respect the law and people. Or, another good solution, for them to leave.”
Rather than debate or rebut, the Union of Mosques of France and the Orwellian-named Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples slapped Houellebecq with a legal complaint. They went as far as to name the interviewer and the director of the magazine Houellebecq’s comments appeared in as defendants in their complaint.
They’re accusing him of “inciting violence” by expressing his opinions, but perhaps nobody knows better what having actual violence incited against oneself feels like than Houellebecq.
In 2015, he published a novel called “Submission,” a fictional account of France electing a Muslim president who slowly unleashes radical political and social transformation on the nation.
The book coincidentally came out just a day after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, where 12 employees of a satirical magazine which had caricatured Muhammad were massacred in their office, including one of Houellebecq’s friends.
The implication — that being even humorously critical of Islam could result in violent retribution — was clear enough to force Houellebecq into hiding, suspending his book tour and leaving his home in Paris. He was even ultimately given police protection.
But now, for sharing his opinion, a judge in Nanterre just charged Houellebecq with “complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence” — the same man who had to go into hiding under threat of violence by the exact group that he supposedly endangered.
Houellebecq’s lawyers told Le Monde that the “[incriminating] remarks have no dimension of incitement, not even implicitly” and that Houellebecq “[regrets] the increasing judicialization of intellectual debate.”
They also aptly added that “a prophet of doom does not wish for disaster.”
France ought to be ashamed of itself, not just for criminalizing the thoughts of a popular public intellectual, but for doing so against the backdrop of absolute anarchy across the nation.
For weeks on end, the country has been terrorized by chaos agents fashioning themselves as protesters, many of them from immigrant backgrounds themselves, who have caused an excess of €1 billion in damages to insured property. A historical city hall in Limoges was even destroyed by an arsonist’s fire.
On Oct. 17 alone, more than 1,000 police officers were injured and nearly 2,500 businesses were damaged. One agitator in Marseille attacked a woman who tried to stop teenagers from smashing a bus shelter — by hitting her in the face with flames from an aerosol can ignited with a lighter.
The courts should be overflowing with assailants and arsonists, but instead they have turned their attention to policing the interviews of public intellectuals.
In France, it seems it’s a greater crime to criticize immigration — or, god forbid, Islam — than to destroy cities and terrorize civilians.
The man who defends his nation’s spirit and integrity is treated as a greater threat than the man who burns that culture to the ground.
