And the state suicide was of course self-inflicted murder.
He has already been accused of buying into the alarmist views of writers such as Renaud Camus, whose “great replacement” theory holds that France is being colonised by Muslim immigrants with the help of the government and the media.
Inside Houellebecq’s Muslim-ruled France
Published: 24 Dec 2014 14:09 GMT+01:00
The Saudis fund the Sorbonne Islamic University in Paris, French primary and secondary teachers have to convert to Islam, and education stops at 11 for girls, who are destined for domestic chores, marriage, and child-bearing.
The state funds only the primary sector, and all education after that is private, with the Gulf monarchies pumping money into Islamic schools, while secular schools slowly wither for lack of funds.
Polygamy is legal, and the removal of women from the workplace means that the country’s stubbornly high unemployment finally plummets.
Mohammed Ben Abbes of the Muslim Fraternity party has beaten Front National leader Marine Le Pen to the presidency with the help of the Socialists, the centrists, and even Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right UMP.
And the most astonishing aspect of this radically new political landscape is that France – suffering from nervous exhaustion after a decade of Socialist rule under François Hollande, severe economic decline, and the terrifying rise of the far-right – rediscovers optimism and economic growth under the rule of the moderate Islamist president.