"We'll take care of you
", "
we hope you'll swallow acid
", "
you'd better not find yourself in the street with a
Charlie Hebdo rag"... Here is a brief overview of the messages that were able to receive Floriane Gouget, a 20-year-old student, and Martin Lom, a 17-year-old high school student, on social networks.
Both are young activists with different life paths but who find themselves around the same fight: the defense of secularism and, more broadly, of republican values such as "
freedom of expression, caricature and blasphemy
".
In a context that sees "
the reappearance of religious fanaticism since the end of the 1980s, with the fatwa launched against the writer Salman Rushdie, as well as the return of political demands linked to religion
", analyzes the philosopher Henri Peña- Ruiz, the fight for the defense of secularism has been shaken.
Witness the waves of hatred received by secular activists in France for several years.
A disturbing finding
Floriane's public commitment…
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