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Guillaume Cuchet: "Secularism is the cover-up of demographic, cultural and historical issues"

2020-11-05T19:08:58.206Z


TRIBUNE - Approaching the question of Islamism through the sole prisms of secularism and freedom of expression, without addressing the issue of immigration, is to avoid the root of the problem, argues the historian *.


The current focus of the public debate on secularism and freedom of expression should not make us lose sight of the fact that the real issues of the problem are, to a large extent, elsewhere, geopolitical, demographic, cultural and historical.

What, fundamentally, is “secularism” the name in this affair and, if we dare say, the cover-up?

Because it would have been necessary, in a sense, to realize before Islam does not become the second religion of the country that it could one day pose us problems of this kind.

A 2016 survey by the Institut Montaigne showed that more than a quarter of Muslims in France were tempted by an "Islam of rupture", in particular among the youth, as we saw in 2015 with the incidents caused in some schools by the minute of silence in memory of the victims of

Charlie Hebdo.

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Source: lefigaro

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