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Matthew P's avatar

Did you read Packer's article on Paris' banlieues in the New Yorker a few years back? Touched on how laicite interacts with the Muslim communities

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apxhard's avatar

THANK YOU

Just having this kind of historical context is, itself useful. The kind of watered-down crap that passes for intellectual discourse in America is frustratingly obtuse. I had only the vaguest sense that there was this difference in French attitudes about religion in society; i hadn't considered the roles the catholic church played in France vs. England and America.

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