#76 - JE SUIS SOUMIS: Visions of Islamo-Dystopia in “Soumission” and “Prayers for the Assassin”
Added 2021-07-19 19:15:16 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid explore two 21st century novels that grapple with the prospect of a looming Islamic takeover of the West: Michel Houellebecq’s “Soumission” (2015), in which the Muslim Brotherhood is elected to power in France, and Robert Ferrigno’s “Prayers For The Assassin” (2006), a political thriller wherein the US has morphed into the Islamic States of America after a rogue Mossad unit (allegedly) nukes Washington DC, New York, and Mecca.
