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French secularism as failed social engineering

The principle of laïcité has become a demagogic tool to reinforce narrow judgements about French identity and discriminate against minorities.

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Following the Charlie Hebdo shootings in which twelve members of the satirical magazine’s staff were murdered by Islamist gunmen on 11 January 2015, a range of controversies shook France that revived the national debate on “laïcité” (the French term for “secularism”) and its increasing entanglement with Islamophobia.