As your leader points out (“Laïcité is not a helpful framework” 23 July), a “society of law-abiding homogeneity” is what the French state seems to be striving for but it is the last thing that France needs.
Our French friends are asking, “Why us again?” The number of French Muslims (estimated at 7 per cent of the general population) is not the problem per se. It’s the denial of Muslims’ religious and cultural identity that is the root cause of France’s insecurity.
03 August 2016, The Tablet
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