Secularism: Everyone Wants to Get Rid of It
by Yves Mamou
December 30, 2016 at 5:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9589/secularism-franceShare
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Now, after more than a century of separation of powers between church and state, an intolerant and extremist Islam is disrupting the rules of the game, invading public spaces, schools, universities and companies with the veil, halal food and open violence.
"By making the public space empty of everything that brings us together... Islamists are eager to fill it, especially in disillusioned, brainless and uprooted young heads". — François Fillon, a former Prime Minister of France, who is running for president in the 2017 election.
"Secularism is just becoming a religion opposed to all other religions", said Tariq Ramadan, a prominent figure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Switzerland and France. He congratulated mayors on Christmas nativity scenes probably because he sees it as an opening for Islamic opportunities in the public sphere. "We need a Republic authorizing the visibility of diversity and not a Republic of neutrality," he said.
