France: The civil war has begun

By Dan Hannan

Published July 25, 2016 4:00am ET

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France: The civil war has begun — Just as these terrorist outrages will push French voters to Marine Le Pen, so her rise will push more French Muslims to radicalism. (AP Photo) | Claude Paris

In one of those eerie coincidences, the day of the Charlie Hebdo atrocity saw the publication of a novel by the grumpy French intellectual Michel Houellebecq (pronounced Wellbeck).

Entitled Submission, it envisioned a charismatic candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood winning the French presidency in 2022 and, in coalition with the other parties, gradually taking over the education system.

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