Refusing the traditional peck on the cheek, avoiding handshakes and keeping distance from colleagues were, if practiced by Muslims, signs of 'radicalization'. Now they're sanitary measures everyone is expected to comply with.
published at the time and still displayed in many shop windows as a reminder of"the values of Republic".
Today, with the adoption of laws and decrees forcing people to wear masks and thus to hide their faces,. Comparing the two laws might seem like nitpicking, but the different meanings that"fundamental values" may have in various contexts actually do expose citizens to major legal insecurity. If you are a Muslim woman who hides her face for religious purposes, you are subjected to a fine and may have to complete a citizenship education class where you will be taught that being a"good citizen" means to uncover your face. Meanwhile, the same government is telling all citizens that in order to be a"good citizen",. This asymmetrical reading of the same behavior, depending on the context and the person who makes the action is at best arbitrary, at most discriminatory.
After the latest attacks in France, at the Paris police headquarters, the French Minister of Interior,: refusing cheek-kissing , not shaking hands, not mingling with colleagues, etc. Today, the very same behavior is promoted, alongside other habits, as social distancing—both sanitary and patriotic, necessary to protect the country fro the pandemic.
Why is it more legitimate to follow sanitary rules rather than religious beliefs if those are not harming anyone, and can in facnt protect others? Not only against diseases—as many of these social practices are more sanitary than the Western habit of shaking hands—but also against sexual harassment, all too often hiding behind the excuses of"Latin" cultures being"naturally" more tactile.
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