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No liberty, equality and fraternity in insulting Islam

THE French are doubling down on Laïcité, their virulent form of secularist fundamentalism. President Emmanuel Macron’s obsession with, and intended crackdown on, Islam and Muslims, calls to question the true nature of the French state – which sloganeers the motto: “liberté, égalité, fraternité” (liberty, equality, fraternity).

Prior to the beheading of Samuel Paty, the teacher who chose to teach children using demeaning illustrations of caricatures of the Prophet, Macron was already prepping the public about what he called “separatism”.

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