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French debate on secular values opens in a climate of political hostility
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21/04/2021 - 12:08 French Junior Minister of Citizenship Marlene Schiappa delivers a speech for the opening of the general assembly of secularism in Paris on April 20, 2021. AFP - BERTRAND GUAY 3 min As the government launches a series of discussion groups on the place of religion in contemporary French society, the battle lines are already drawn. The proposed broad public debate on the troubled relationship between faith and state has been criticised as divisive and unnecessary across the political spectrum. Advertising Read more
Launched by Marlène Schiappa, the Junior Minister responsible for citizenship, the series of public debates opened on Tuesday with a high-level conference in Paris.
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LICRA and Publicis Conseil have created a campaign to reaffirm the commitment and vocation of the association, since its creation, in the fight against all types of racism and thus to assert the R of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (in French: Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l’Antisémitisme).
This campaign illustrates how racism has evolved. Because if less and less French people declare themselves as racists, acts unfortunately increase. A new form of racism qualified as ordinary and a generated hatred which today crystallizes around the fear of the other.
Because it is fear that often leads to racism. And in our society where continuous information and overexposure to messages have become a norm, this fear is frequently spread.
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