Michel Houellebecq

If this ugly Frenchman sees the ugliness of the world clearly, then it is not, contrary to Fukuyama, boredom which jumpstarts history again but the denial of essential human nature, not just what Christians call fallenness but also animal flesh. Nature herself, or lady Wisdom of the Proverbs, cries out and will reassert herself.

The shocking thing about Michel Houellebecq’s Submission is not that it isn’t anti-Muslim. The shocking thing is that it’s not—or not primarily—anti-Islam.