France is standing up against extremism, without compromising its values
When I first I arrived in Washington in June 2019, I discovered that many people had a lingering misunderstanding about the relationship between the state and religions in France — what we call laïcité (which cannot really be accurately translated just by the word “secularism”).
But recent events, including the horrible murders of Samuel Paty, a teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, and of three Catholic worshipers — Vincent Loquès, Simone Barreto Silva and Nadine Devillers — at a church in Nice, have generated reactions in social media and in the U.S. press that have been met with resentment in my country for being totally unfair and sometimes based on false information.… Seguir leyendo »