The Grand Mosque in Paris announced Thursday that it had filed a legal complaint against French writer Michel Houellebecq for anti-Islamic remarks.
And the Paris Mosque said - in a statement - "We have taken the decision to file a judicial complaint against Welbeck against the background of statements that stir up hatred towards Muslims," which he made last November in an interview with the French magazine "Front Populaire".
The statement considered the interview between the French writer and the founder of the aforementioned magazine, Michel Onfray, "unacceptable" and described it as "brutal."
The Dean of the Great Mosque of Paris, Shams El Din Hafeez, also denounced the "violent" and "extremely dangerous" statements made by Michel Welbeck against Muslims.
The statement indicated that "while criticism of religion is permissible in a democratic society, the comments in the magazine were calling for the rejection and exclusion of the Islamic component as a whole."
In a long conversation with Onfray, Welbeck said, "The desire of the original French, as they say, is not for the Muslims to assimilate, but for them to stop robbing and attacking them. Otherwise, there is another solution, to leave."
He also predicted that a "reverse Bataclan" would occur against Muslims, referring to the terrorist attacks that took place on November 13, 2015, the worst in France ever, which left 130 dead and more than 350 injured, and targeted especially the Bataclan theater in Paris.
"When entire areas are under Islamic control, I believe that acts of resistance will take place... There will be attacks and shootings in mosques and cafes, which are mostly visited by Muslims," he said.
In response to these statements, Chamseddine Hafeez told the French BFM tv channel that "the exclusion of an entire component of the French people, its complete exclusion, is a very dangerous matter," denouncing the use of the dichotomy of "indigenous French" and "Muslims." .