Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority for a law prohibiting the wearing of ‘conspicuous’ religious symbols in public schools, colleges and high schools. Two weeks ago, a professor at a Parisian college was threatened with death for having asked a student to remove her veil.
It would be naive to believe that it is enough to stem a current of questioning of secularism which reaches schools and, beyond that, hits society as a whole. In view of the statistics of what are too modestly called ‘attacks on secularism’ and which range from the refusal of certain historical or scientific teachings to physical threats against.