Tag: French Secularism
French Gerin report recommends full-faced veils to be banned
A 32-member multiparty panel led by Andre Gerin presented a panoply of recommendations aimed at dissuading Muslim women from wearing full-face covering headscarves. Another...
French social scientist claims that secularism important to French Muslims
Philippe Portier, director of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions et Laïcité at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), claims that in France today there...
Nicolas Sarkozy Defends the Notion of “Positive French Secularism”
French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently defended the notion of “positive secularism” which allows place for religion in the public sphere. While Sarkozy has not...
