Houellebecq case – Is there a Muslim delinquency?

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CHRONIC. If the words of the writer are unworthy, the quarrel that followed is all the more appalling because it prohibits our need to question.

By Ferghane Azihari

“JI believe that the wish of the native French population, as they say, is not for Muslims to assimilate, but for them to stop stealing from and attacking them. “These remarks made by Michel Houellebecq in the magazine Popular Frontled by Michel Onfray, sparked an outcry.

From this formulation unworthy of a renowned writer thus arises a quarrel that is all the more appalling in that it eclipses the need to question without extrapolating what sociologists have called, since Durkheim, a social fact: “a determined group of phenomena”. which “consist of ways of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual” and which statistics make it possible to isolate.

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