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I remember that African American surgeon politicians once said that a Muslim could never be the president of the US. Such blatant statements are very normalized in America and accepted. There is a strange posturing of Christianity in that land. Trump never showed any Christian fervor, but suddenly holding the bible publicly made his base go wild.
It's never about these values but who these values belong to. A tribalistic undercurrent that pretends otherwise exists at the core of this. Demarcation is at the root of this motivation. The more Christianity is associated with the identity of the political establishment, the more you single out Muslim immigrants and their power aspirations within the land.
Take France, for example. A secular country that goes hard against immigrants through these targeted laws that pretend to be impartial. What those actions represent is systemic discrimination because the average French European woman doesn't use hijab in the workplace, so she has to move less for this "secularization," right? I figure those changes also serve the purpose of signaling to immigrants that this place is difficult for Muslims in hopes that people migrate less to that place. This is a racial, tribal in-group/out-group distinguishing processing that pretends to be an overarching value beyond race. The hardcore secularism among the far-right in France is not about the love of Montesquieu but an effective discriminatory mechanism.
To highlight impartiality, the places exempt from the forced secularization laws within mainland France today are regions like Alsace and adjacent Moselle that historically housed a notable Jewish population. The laïcité does not apply there.
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