Today is the 115th anniversary of the vote of the French law about the separation of state and churches, voted on the 9th of december 1905.
At this time, the law was clearly aimed against the catholic church and supported by Protestants and Jewish. There was a true conflict as the catholic church did not accept Republic and Human rights.
An exemple: " On 30 July 1904, the Chamber of Deputies voted to sever diplomatic relations with the Vatican following the sanction, by the Holy See, of two French bishops (Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez and Pierre Joseph Geay) who had declared themselves Republicans and in favour of conciliation with the Republic. The relationship was not reestablished until 1921, after the Senate accepted a proposition brought by Aristide Briand."
The first world war healed the rift.
Nowadays, the French republic must face a rising of religious integrism among people from every faith, Islam but not only Islam included. Most believers are not integrist, happily.
One must absolutely differentiates 3 terms:
-Islam which is a religion
-Muslims who are people, believers in Islam,
-Islamists who are people, integrists muslims, with a political project, to institute an islamic state in France.
One may criticize and dislike Islam as an ideology, with the scientific meaning of the world, not the usual one, it is not racisme.
One may not dislike Muslims as people, it would be racism. To essentialize them would be the first step.
One must fight Islamists as bearers of a totalitarian project, not because they are Muslims.
