Let us first recall the text of this law which was drafted in my office and promulgated on March 15, 2004:
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In public schools, colleges and high schools, the wearing of signs and outfits which ostensibly demonstrate the religious affiliation of students is forbidden.
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Despite its (rare) brevity, we cannot understand anything about this law if we do not recall its context.
President Chirac had one day, after leaving a Council of Ministers, asked me if by chance I had an idea on the school to submit to him for a major speech that he was preparing, and, for the first time , we had a real, in-depth conversation.
We first discussed the context in which it seemed necessary to me to tackle head on the question of communitarianism rooted in religious fundamentalism: according to the figures provided on December 9, 2003 by the Ministry of the Interior, anti-Semitic violence had experienced a sudden increase during the year 2000 due to refraction…
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