{"id":8973,"date":"2025-12-14T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/weaponising-secularism-french-politicians-accused-of-using-laicite-to-target-muslims\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:23","slug":"weaponising-secularism-french-politicians-accused-of-using-laicite-to-target-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/weaponising-secularism-french-politicians-accused-of-using-laicite-to-target-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaponising secularism: French politicians accused of using \u2018la\u00efcit\u00e9\u2019 to target Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/772b1568-d1f3-11f0-b77f-005056a90284\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/000-8TG4RA.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>Conservative lawmakers have put forward a number of proposals targeting France\u2019s Muslims, including a ban on under-18s wearing hijabs in public, citing the threat from radical Islamists.\u00a0Critics say the measures violate the very secular rules they profess to defend,\u00a0and highlight the growing use of French \u201cla\u00efcit\u00e9\u201d\u00a0\u2013 or state secularism\u00a0\u2013 to curtail the rights of Muslim citizens.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20251209-weaponising-secularism-french-politicians-accused-of-using-laicit%C3%A9-to-target-muslims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative lawmakers have put forward a number of proposals targeting France\u2019s Muslims, including a ban on under-18s wearing hijabs in public, citing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}