Michel Houellebecq was awarded France's top literary prize today, the Prix Goncourt. That's no doubt intended as a great big F-U to France's Muslim minority.
His Divine Majesty Macron has his hands full these days with various revelations concerning military meddling in Libya, Yemen, and various African (former?) colonies, the ongoing working class revolt that won't go away, and of course, the convenient catastrophe of the Notre-Dame fire, the fire that promises to unite all French, or at least those from the respectable classes, around the cross of Jesus.
Whatever Houellebecq's charms as an artiste, he is best known for his anti-Muslim fear-mongering. That France's cultural elite would choose this moment in time to elevate such a hate-monger into the literary pantheon speaks volumes.
Nothing good can come of this.
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