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this is the problem that was raised by the french state's lowering of the flag to half staff because the pope died two weeks after the government had carried the legislation banning all forms of the veil from public schools on the grounds that the republic was secular and so public space was secular by extension--and schools are public functions (including, presumably private schools) so there we are.
the underlying racism of the claim to "be secular" in this context became apparent.
christianity so saturates the context that it ceased to figure as an impediment to secularity. public displays of adherence to islam are somehow problematic.
sounds like the front national to me.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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