News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
France, 2022: a Muslim is elected president of the Republic. This is the plot of Michel Houellebecq’s new book. Submission paints a portrait of France led by an Islamic party, where the Sorbonne is an Islamic university and the president is named Mohammed Ben Abbes. The book’s release followed Eric Zemmour’s controversial remarks about French
News Agencies – November 8, 2010 The controversial bestselling author Michel Houellebecq has won France’s most coveted literary prize — the Prix Goncourt — for his new novel, La Carte et Le Territoire (“The Map and the Territory”). The novel tells of a solitary, misanthropic artist who becomes a critical darling and commercial success almost
Les tribunaux ne leur ont jamais donn_ gain de cause mais ces revers n’entament pas ” la confiance ” des organisations musulmanes fran_aises dans la justice de leur pays. Elles l’ont r_p_t_ _ la veille du proc_s contre Charlie Hebdo, mercredi 7 f_vrier, devant la 17e chambre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris. La Grande Mosqu_e
For this historian, only just tolerated by the Tunisian regime, Islam is compatible with democracy, Muslims should free themselves from sharia, liberty is primary, and the pope therefore has the right to state his opinion. Benedict XVI has the right, “like everyone,” to express himself. Mohamed Talbi was furthermore not really surprised by the statements