https://pando.com/2015/01/13/charlie-hebdo-unmournable-frenchies/ … laïcité is a legitimate cultural ideal, I know as an anglo you think everyone should have the same culture as you, but newsflash, the French have different values than you.
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If you don't see any connection whatsoever between previous aggressive expressions of laïcité and the borderline-fascist suppression of Islam Macron is doing now, I don't know what to say
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The idea that laïcité/secularism remains the same thing and remians admirable whether directed against a majority or minority religious practice is obviously a straight-line highway to this kind of oppression
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Yes, and it's bad
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And you're still falling back on the whole "It's my unique French culture" thing as though the whole angry-atheist Islamophobic movement in the English-speaking world -- led by classic red-faced Brits like Hitchens and Dawkins -- didn't define itself as "freedom from religion"
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Not when it involves suppressing the freedoms of their citizens, it doesn't
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This collapsing of everyone who practices a religion into one entity who's responsible for all crimes an individual Muslim commits is exactly the fascist tendency we're talking about
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Again, not all that unique to France in the end You hear the same sentiment constantly in America, it led to the PATRIOT Act, no-fly lists, Global War on Terror Hardly a "passing intellectual fad"
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