gordon mohr quoted french writer tried as anti islam protest erupts by caroline brothers paris reuters provocative french novelist michel houellebecq faced a paris court on tuesday for allegedly inciting racial hatred by calling islam the stupidest religion and its holy book the koran a depressing read the case brought against him by four muslim groups is a cause celebre reminiscent of the salman rushdie affair pitting freedom of expression against religious sensitivities very reminiscent indeed ayatollah chirac has decreed a death sentence on houellebecq and liked minded fundamentalists have offered millions of euros bounty for his head so he has gone into hiding under police protection for a few years or maybe some handful of muslims are acting uppity and dragging him to court under hate speech laws make a point about people not showin dem da massive respect dat dey deserve especially these days or maybe some journo is trying to fill column inches on a boring day btw i read houellebecq s extension du domaine de la lutte recently about a depressed computer services dude working in paris looking for love and not finding it slowing losing his marbles and trying to get a friend of his to kill a woman and ending up in a clinic for nutcases yikes purposely provocative very depressing with some unbelievably boring passages where the anti hero writes little stories about animals talking philosophical mumbo jumbo to each other quoted inline in full for pages on end it starts out on friday evening i was invited to a party with some colleagues from work there were about thrity of us all professionals aged from twenty five to forty at one point some cunt started getting undressed she took off her t shirt then her bra then her skirt all the while making unbelievable faces she pranced around for a few seconds then she started getting dresesd again because she didn t know what else to do anyway she never sleeps with anyone which underlines the absurdity of her behaviour after my fourth glass of vodka i started to feel pretty bad so i had to go lie down on a bunch of cushions behind the couch shortly after that two girls came and sat on the couch those girls are not pretty at all the two fat office cows actually they go to eat together and read books about the development of language in children all that sort of stuff and it s downhill from there r 