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France's famous "laïcité" has been transformed from a solution for social peace after the anticlerical struggles of the late-19th and early 20th centuries to become an arm against Muslims. "Laïcité" is only used against Muslims. The law against schoolgirls wearing veils was framed in terms of "visible signs of religion", but Catholic boys and girls can continue to wear crosses around their necks.
No fundamentalist Catholic, a religion just as sexist as some forms of Islam, would ever be denied nationality based on her religious beliefs. This is just one more example of French hypocrisy as to its so-called "secular" values.
