To consider that secularism is a concept with variable geometry is to allow obscurantism and violence to progress. Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard paid with their lives the price for the freedom to teach.
Every day we have the feeling that their faces are fading, that “their death was for nothing”, as they say. This week again, principals demonstrated – something rare – to express their concern and recount their daily lives, often punctuated by violence and attacks on secularism.