'But surely if you care about Allah and the Dome of the Rock, you're not going to be surfing Muslim porn in the first place?' I suggest.
'All that is about hypocrisy.'
As for himself, Milukman's mother is from Naples and his father French; 'Milukman' is a meaningless nickname, and his heritage has made him a fully indifferent Catholic.
'In my mind, I'm Italian; in my way of being, I'm French,' he says. 'I'm a Christian, but that is not a problem.'
If anything, like so many people I've met on my journey, Milukman comes across as a Darwinian capitalist, a man whose belief system consists of one brutally simple credo: 'survival of the richest,' with little if any concern for what was once quaintly called the common good.
Superficially, he's as charming as you'd expect a Franco-Italian to be and far more handsome than the stereotypical Nethead.
Fundamentally, though, he must be a pretty nasty piece of work.
Milukman made his first fortune by starting a vengeance website back in 1998, claiming that it was one of the few Internet concepts to originate in Europe and be copied in the US rather than the other way round.
On the site, jilted lovers get their own back by posting compromising photos of their exes, alongside explanations of why they want revenge.
'For me, it was a very funny idea,' he recalls. 'I never believed it would be as successful as it was.'
Now in his mid-thirties, Milukman says he's made enough money from porn to never have to work again.
I have no way of verifying this, but when he mentions that an ongoing tax inspection may cost him €150,000, he doesn't look worried at all.
'My father had a big business,' he says, adding that he didn't know anything about France's slums until he started Beurettes Rebelles.
His dad wanted him to join the family business, but Milukman rebelled. That's how he got into porn.
'It's the best business to make money in,' he shrugs.
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