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No one in France talks about western culture. The main parties which have made Islam a theme are staunchly anti-American.

France has had a strong separation between the state and religion for a century. It’s one of the less religious country in the world and a significant part of the population is still strongly against any kind of religion especially the Catholic Church.

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Remind me which country is the one with the hijab ban in schools? Is it america or is it France? And you want to tell me you’re not having a religious conflict over there?

I have issue making sense of your reply to my comment. I don’t see how it’s against anything I said.

As I wrote: "a significant part of the population is still strongly against any kind of religion".

All religious signs are banned in schools not only the hijab. France views religion as strictly a private matter which has no place at all in the public sphere. That’s not a religious conflict just widely incompatible with the American view on the subjects.

You don’t think the French ban on hijab has anything to do with religion? You think it’s just a coincidence and has nothing to do with the fact that Christianity happens not to generally require outwardly visible symbols of membership in a religious community, unlike Islam, Shikhism, Orthodox Judaism, etc.?

Remind me which faith in France add to shoot at civil servants to try to prevent them taking an inventory of the content of their cult places so it could be ceased by the state. I guess you don’t know or you wouldn’t write such idiocies.

But even then, as a French, I would applaud anything going against religions. The faster we get ride of obscurantism the better the world.

Do you truly believe that hijabs and only hijabs (or maybe other Islamic symbols) are banned? Because if so I've got some good news for you - all overt religious symbols are treated equally.

And it’s so convenient that it so happens that Christianity emphasizes one’s personal relationship with god and generally doesn’t require or encourage wearing overt religious symbols.

"Christianity" doesn't emphasize a personal relationship with God; many forms of Protestantism do, but Catholicism does almost the opposite, and French Christians are overwhelmingly Catholic.

Only the ones that integrate well with modern society. There are tv shows that point out the antiquated ways of the Amish such as how they teach their kids and dress their women and their older children's struggles to adjust in broader society, for example.

It's called Laicism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laicism

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