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Even those who have not read Paul Nizan know his formula.
It resonates all the more when it comes to the 2004 law on the wearing of religious symbols at school, the twentieth year of which we celebrated on Friday March 15.
Our columnist Luc Ferry was the Minister of Education when the law was adopted.
At the time, the text aimed to provide protection to teachers and school heads (already) facing communitarian pressures, but also to certain young Muslim girls.
“Young girls who did not display any religious symbol were more and more often reproached by fundamentalists for not doing so, since others were doing it
,” he recalls in our columns.
As EHESS researcher Éric Maurin notes in our columns, the law is far from having been in vain.
“The ban on the veil coincided with a marked improvement in results…
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