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Secularism in France

France once again must reckon with its vision of secularism and its legacy of racializing its postcolonial subjects.

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Secularism’s Prisoners

Series: Secularism in France
Ebrahim Moosa
December 10, 2020January 24, 2024

The theater of Macron’s crusade is his own backyard, the banlieues—from where the uncivilized darkness will lift when floodlit by the vaunted French version of secularism, laïcité.

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Radical Free Speech

Series: Secularism in France
Nadia Fadil
December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

Now anti-racist views, including academic ones, are also being charged with instigating hate and polarization.

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France: A Sacred Union against Terrorism or against Muslims?

Series: Secularism in France
Houria Bouteldja
November 24, 2020November 25, 2020

The main aim of the establishment becomes clear: to foreclose the emergence of other interpretations of the tragic murder. To use all means possible to prevent the meeting of the two angers (white anger and the anger of racialized populations) and the possibility of their convergence. These must be separated and partitioned.

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From Danish Cartoons to French Separatism: Mobilizing Culture Wars

Series: Secularism in France
H. A. Hellyer
November 19, 2020November 22, 2020

The question was never about free speech per se; it was about what we, as Europeans, considered to be sacred in the public sphere, and how we, as Europeans, continually redraw the lines of inclusion and exclusion in our political, social, and cultural spaces.

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