French writer Michel Houellebecq says he is a ‘part-time Islamophobe’ The best-selling French writer is notorious for repeatedly arguing that Islam is not compatible with France's 'Republican values.'

(Morocco World News) French writer Michel Houellebecq has strikingly admitted to condoning and promoting an anti-Islam discourse, sarcastically pleading guilty to being “a part-time Islamophobe.”

France has a problem with Islam

The writer made his shocking remarks as he barely emerged from a wave of criticism in the aftermath of the anti-Islam views he expressed in a recent conversation with French philosopher Michel Onfray.

In that highly controversial conversation between two intellectuals who have been making a name for themselves by airing “reactionary” or “unorthodox” views and theses in their many books and television appearances, Houellebecq appeared to make the case that France has a problem with “Islamist separatism.”

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