Jacques de Saint Victor: “The question of civilizations is back”

The recent proliferation of communitarian offensives by individuals who, in addition to the veil, want to dress and live in Islamic fashion, by wearing the burkini in swimming pools or wearing abayas and kamis at school, not to mention the worrying pressures affecting agents calling for compliance with the regulations prohibiting these outfits, such as this lifeguard from Yvelines or this CPE of a Parisian high school undergoing death threats, have the scent of “clash of civilizations”.

This whole environment leads to asking some annoying questions.

Contrary to what we might have long hoped, secularism will not be an effective weapon to oppose these communitarian pressures.

It is enough to read the convoluted judgment of the Council of State on the question of the burkini in Grenoble to understand that liberal law cannot long be used to defend mores.

And here we have again posed a question that the founding fathers of our great constitutional charters had the good fortune to be able to avoid...

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