Every society seems to need taboos, no-go areas, de facto blasphemy laws. How the United States has kept its secular constitution as long as it has is a wonder. In any other circumstance, I might call it a miracle.
American secularism differs from, say, French secularism. In the U.S., secularism means that no sect gets a privileged legal position. As the Constitution puts it,"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It also states, “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office."
It is already happening in Britain. Tony Blair’s government took the last blasphemy laws off the statute books in 2008. Precisely from that moment, people began to be persecuted for offending against the values that a post-Christian society had sacralized. A homophobic or misogynistic tweet could result in your collar being felt. It was as if, having toppled God, people needed to erect something in his place. That something turned out to be the creed of identity politics.
The boy’s mother, who, like her son, is non-Muslim, came to the local mosque as a penitent, her head covered, and stammered out an apology. A Labour councilor, ostensibly calling for calm and dispelling rumors of deliberate damage, declared that the child had “rightfully so” been excluded from school and praised his mother for not prosecuting those threatening him with death.
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