In France, It's Officially Now a Crime to Criticize Islam, Even for a Major Author Who Was Permitted to Blaspheme Just Ten Years Ago

Michel Houllebecq, author of Submission -- about France under Islamic rule -- was just charged with the crime of offending violent Muslim colonizers.

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FRENCH AUTHOR CHARGED FOR CRITICISM OF ISLAM

Michel Houellebecq is a French novelist, filmmaker and singer.

He is known for his 'controversial' views on Islam and demographic replacement.

He has said that Islam is "the dumbest of religions" and has warned "when entire territories come under Islamist control ... [violent] acts of resistance will take place"

He has also said:

"the wish of the population with French roots" was "for the violence to decrease, for [Muslim immigrants] to respect the law and people. Or, another good solution, for them to leave."

The Union of Mosques of France filed a legal complaint alleging Houellebecq of "encouraging violence" through his remarks.

In 2015, he published a novel titled 'Submission', imagining France under a Muslim president whose election leads to sweeping political and social changes.

He did this just a day after the the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. One of the victims of that murderous terrorist attack on freedom of speech just so happened to be a friend of his.

A judge has now charged him with "complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence"

Houellebecq's attorneys told Le Monde that the "[incriminating] remarks have no dimension of incitement, not even implicitly" and said their client
"[regrets] the increasing judicialization of intellectual debate."

When far left groups and Muslim organisations take people to court to get a politically motivated judge to charge them for speaking freely, that signs the death knell for feedom of speech.

Resist them while you can with every ounce of determination and with every resource you have, or risk losing those freedoms forever.

Houllebecq is a major author and public intellectual. So this isn't a case of the censors going after a minor-league rabble-rouser they decide people won't fight for.

This is the censors coming straight at the heart of free speech. Political speech and art are now officially crimes.

David Strom points out he's even chickened out and backtracked as the Muslims ginned up the state to punish him. It wasn't enough.

They want the coercion. They want the blasphemy laws enforced.

And the guy is hardly Tommy Robinson, who is more confrontational. He used to be, but has become far more circumspect. When he got pushback on his comments, he chickened out and said the problem wasn't Islam, but juvenile delinquents who just happen to be, by some strange coincidence, Muslims.

He learned his lesson from the previous trial: couch your words in vagueness if you might offend a Muslim.

Worst of all, he said he worried not so much about Muslims becoming violent, but about the French reaction to Muslims [after the French became] tired of the crime.

In other words, Strom notes, he did the Norm MacDonald joke, but for real, hoping that if he couched his words in terms of his fear of backlash against peaceful Muslims after they blow up a dirty bomb, his speech would be deemed legal.

It wasn't.

Oh, one more point from Strom:

It's amazing how far down the prestige ladder the French intellectuals have fallen; a couple of decades ago, it would have been inconceivable for intellectuals to be held to account for almost any crime.

Including pedophilia, of course, if you're on the left.

When I was studying French and watching their TV, I was surprised that they actually respected free speech on news discussion shows. Yes, speakers on the right were "controversial," but they were actually allowed on the major debate shows and treated with respect. The French were, in that regard, much more open than the very closed American media, which completely excludes conservatives from the public debate.

Except, of course, for "conservatives" like David French, Bill Krisol, and Jonah Goldberg.

And it also wasn't the six-on-one token conservative gang-up, either. People were permitted to speak and disputes were had between one person and one other, or maybe two others.

But I see that is no longer the case. Now they're charging critics of Islam with blasphemy.

KS-MVultra
@kevinskiles

Nov 10

I'm so relieved the west won the Cold War. If the Soviets had of prevailed we'd be living under constant photo survelience, all our phones would be tapped, going to a political protest could get you financially sanctioned, writing a critical book could get you jailed and there would only be one political party to vote for. What a relief none of that happened.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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