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L. Ali Khan, founder of Legal Scholar Academy and an Emeritus Professor of Law at the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, writes about the state of secularism in France and the controversies revolving around it.
French Muslims are in the process of reconciling with the Fifth Republic of France, established with the 1958 Constitution, which declares France to be a secular state. In the past thirty years, secular issues have fractured social order as Muslim women, born and raised in France, wish to wear the
hijab (headscarf) in schools and the
niqab (full-face veil) in public places. Starting in the late 1980s, women began to challenge the French laws against Islamic clothing in the European Court of Human Rights.
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EU Court ruling allowing member states to ban ritual slaughter: Commission ‘has full understanding of the concerns of the Jewish and Muslim communities’
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In its ruling on Thursday (17 December), the Luxembourg-based Court backed a regulation adopted in the Flemish and Walloon regions of Belgium banning the slaughter of livestock that have not been stunned on animal rights grounds.The measure is considered as effectively outlawing the Jewish kosher religious practice which require livestock to be conscious when their throats are slit. The Commission takes note of the ruling. Of course it respects the judgement of the European Court of Justice,’’ said the spokesperson, Christian Wigand, in response to a question from European Jewish Press over the court ruling, during Friday’s Commission press briefing.
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‘’The European Commission takes note of the ruling. Of course it respects the judgement of the European Court of Justice,’’ said a spokesperson, in response to a question from European Jewish Press over the court ruling.
He added: ‘’Let me make one thing very clear as you put this in the context of religious freedom for the Jewish communities. Jewish communities are and always will be welcome in Europe.’’
He referred to the statement made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shortly after her nomination when she said: ‘’We are all part of the same community. There would be no European culture without the Jewish culture. There would be no Europe without Jewish people. Fostering Jewish life is something which I have always taken very seriously.’’