Tag: laicite
Baby Loup’s return to the court of appeals: towards what secularism?
June 16, 2014
On June 16 the Court of Appeals, comprised of eighteen judges, reconvened to discuss the 2008 dismissal of Fatima Afif, an employee...
EU court backs French hijab ban
Europe’s top human rights court held the 2004 French ban on wearing the hijab in public schools and government offices. Two French Muslim girls,...
Marine Le Pen Claims that “Positive” Laïcité has Benefited Islam
National Front vice-president Marine Le Pen has offered her reflections on what President Nicholas Sarkozy has termed “positive secularism.” On the occasion of Pope...
Secularism confronts Islam
The author has already written elsewhere about the failure of political Islam because of the non-compatibility of the Islamic imaginary with the structure of...
