The latest salvo in France’s war with its Muslim citizenry is the accusation of “Islamo-leftism”, a right-wing talking point that suggests a nefarious alliance between extremist Muslims and leftist academics and that seeks to marginalize... more
The latest salvo in France’s war with its Muslim citizenry is the accusation of “Islamo-leftism”, a right-wing talking point that suggests a nefarious alliance between extremist Muslims and leftist academics and that seeks to marginalize both
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What began as a legal measure to keep religion out of state affairs has metastasized into open religious bigotry against Muslims.
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A new French law aims to separate truth from fiction, but it will mostly just give the government more control over the media.
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Blog post for the Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the Berkley Forum.
Link to the article: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/french-muslims-stuck-in-the-middle
Link to the article: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/french-muslims-stuck-in-the-middle
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Paper selected to be presented at the World Congress of the International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy- 27 July-1 August 2015 in Washington D.C. (USA).
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In recent years, in response to the increasing public expression of religion (particularly Islam), the French legal notion of public order has evolved into a vehicle increasingly used to limit all religious freedom, as evidenced by... more
In recent years, in response to the increasing public expression of religion (particularly Islam), the French legal notion of public order has evolved into a vehicle increasingly used to limit all religious freedom, as evidenced by recent legislation and case law in both French courts and European Court of Human Rights. The alarming morphing of the idea of public order into a tool which restricts religious expression reflects a governmental will to create a public social space laïcisized to an extreme which confines expressions of religion to the private sphere, which itself is not immune to further state restrictions.