Saturday, 14 November 2026

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 offence. 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 vapours. 


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