One of the most prominent French writers living today, Michel Houellebecq, has been charged over the comments about Muslims dating back 4 years, made in his 2022 interview. If found guilty, Houellebecq faces up to one year in prison and a fine of €45,000. His crime was to criticize Muslims and invoke the phrase “the Great Replacement” to describe demographic change in Europe as “statistical fact”. Houellebecq had said: "I was very shocked that The Great Replacement was called a theory." (The term was coined by far-right writer Renaud Camus who claims French and European populations are being replaced by a non-European, Muslim population.) "It's not a theory, it's a fact (...) Renaud Camus is a good writer, that's beyond doubt. So, he observed a great replacement or – to be more precise – the changing ethnic and religious composition of the European population. It's a statistical evidence." He continued: ""When entire territories come under Islamist control, I think acts of resistance will take place. There will be attacks and shootings in mosques, in cafés frequented by Muslims, in short, Bataclans in reverse," (referring to the November 13, 2015, terrorist attack at the Bataclan theater in Paris). If you never had a chance to read Submission by Michel Houellebecq written 11 years ago, describing the imagined situation in which a Muslim party upholding Islamist and patriarchal values is able to win the 2022 French presidential election with the support of the Socialist Party, - now is a time to read it! Or reread it, anyway. Guess they have no first amendment laws in Europe. The Islamic suppression and persecution of non-Muslims is well underway in the UK and France.