French teacher's horrific beheading triggers reckoning over secularism

"The new 'laïcité' ... has become a tool to target people we consider the enemies of our culture," said professor Raphaël Liogier.

"The new 'laïcité' ... it's not a legal and philosophical principle anymore," said the philosopher and sociologist Raphaël Liogier, a professor at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence."It's become a tool to target people we consider the enemies of our culture." “We will defend the freedom you taught so well and we will raise secularism,” said Macron. “We will not give up caricatures, drawings, even if others back down. We will offer every chance that the Republic owes all its youth without any discrimination.”

MattMcBradley I do expect the state to oppress religious extremism. Secularism doesn’t say your religion is illegal - practice your religion freely but you don’t have the ‘right’ to kill, abuse, hurt and behead those who don’t follow your beliefs. Secularism is not communism😎

MattMcBradley Oppress? Or get smart? No citizen in any country should be allowed to openly call for the death of others!! WakeUpFrance

MattMcBradley Oh there you go leftist morons. If a tion against radical muslims mean oppression for you uhhhh

MattMcBradley France has not done a good job of integrating foreign cultures, and such things will increase with the populist movement in the future.

MattMcBradley This is horrible news!! Hey heads up, France!

MattMcBradley Muslims add nothing to Western Society and they do side against the West at every opportunity. They add nothing but the risk of terror to France and other countries that have turned an eye toward mass ridiculous immigration. I applaud France for their efforts here.

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MattMcBradley Who r we kidding? This is but one of the horrific attacks on non Muslims in France over the last 10 years. Ignoring the spread of hate filled ideology has consequences.

MattMcBradley the is very bad, france, control your emotion, one man or a group of seething radicals did this wretched thing. please do not punish all muslims, that is not right.

MattMcBradley That’s your take? After hundreds of dead from Islamists since 2015, THATS YOUR TAKE?!

MattMcBradley at some point u hv to make choice

MattMcBradley France's 'secularism' has always been applied in a lopsided manner, with specific targets. It's never been even-handed in its application.

MattMcBradley MattMcBradley How about digging more into the inconsistency of the Catholic Right within secularism? Personally, I like the French idea of secularism applied to all, rather than to the idea of one, which is not the concept 'shifting' but rather the politicization of it. ....

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MattMcBradley We need to change the religours books the bible and the Kuran must be amended we must get rid of all verses that states that God allows killing of others. We need to create harmony in our societies and that can only be achieved if we stop trying to convert each other.

MattMcBradley MattMcBradley wants French Muslims to have the freedom to behead people who dare show cartoons of their sky fairy

MattMcBradley Any kind of oppression will be faced with resistance

MattMcBradley 'S-slightly less than 10%' of France's population being Muslim is an EXTREMELY HIGH, ALARMING proportion.

MattMcBradley Are you suggesting that the teacher deserved decapitation because some islamists might be offended? Those not duped by stone age religion not bound by its strictures. JeSuisSamuel

MattMcBradley Religions have been used to oppress for centuries.

MattMcBradley Sushant we see you in France! To meet there a good chance! Paris is a very modern city. Every boy here is girl advance. May God create a joyful circumstance! May we see you have a glance! Come to Eiffel Tower for a dance! The moment is charming to the romance! LOVESUSHANT

MattMcBradley Je suis Samuel

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