{"id":389145,"date":"2018-12-14T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/range-of-permissible-opinions-is-steadily-shrinking\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:45:14","slug":"range-of-permissible-opinions-is-steadily-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/range-of-permissible-opinions-is-steadily-shrinking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRange of Permissible Opinions\u201d is \u201cSteadily Shrinking\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Iconic French author sounds alarm bell over free speech<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>December 14, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/141218houellebecq1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legendary French author Michel Houellebecq warns that the \u201crange of permissible opinions\u201d that people are allowed to express publicly is \u201csteadily shrinking\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2019\/01\/donald-trump-is-a-good-president\/\">Harper\u2019s<\/a>, the literary icon warns that freedom of speech is being strangled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Americans are no longer prepared to die for the freedom of the press,\u201d writes Houellebecq, adding, \u201cBesides, what freedom of the press? Ever since I was twelve years old, I\u2019ve watched the range of opinions permissible in the press steadily shrinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then decried a new \u201chunting expedition\u201d in France against conservative writer \u00c9ric Zemmour, author of The French Suicide, which argues that French society has been greatly damaged by neo-liberalism, Islam and political correctness.<\/p>\n<p>Zemmour recently received heat for warning that France was being reverse colonized by decades of mass immigration that came about as a result of national self-loathing.<\/p>\n<p>Houellebecq, whose book Submission, which warned of an Islamist takeover of France, was published on the day of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, has also been targeted for espousing unpopular truths.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, the author was put on trial for racial hatred and later acquitted after saying that Islam was \u201cthe dumbest religion\u201d during an interview. He has also intermittently had to rely on armed protection due to threats against his life by Islamic terrorists. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in his Harper\u2019s piece, Houellebecq notes that Europe has always been in a historical struggle against Islam and that \u201cthat struggle has simply returned to the foreground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also looks forward to the European Union dissolving and France once again becoming an independent country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my belief that we in Europe have neither a common language, nor common values, nor common interests,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/michel-houellebecq-range-of-permissible-opinions-is-steadily-shrinking.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic French author sounds alarm bell over free speech Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comDecember 14, 2018 Legendary French author Michel Houellebecq warns that the \u201crange of permissible opinions\u201d that people are allowed to express publicly is \u201csteadily shrinking\u201d. In a piece for Harper\u2019s, the literary icon warns that freedom of speech is being strangled. \u201cThe Americans are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}