“Let us leave people alone”: on CNews, Mathias Leboeuf denounces a “clothing police” against the veil

ByMuhammad

In a debate where Muslims and the veil are too often transformed into instruments of political one-upmanship, Mathias Leboeuf had the merit of giving a clear, coherent and unambiguous speech on CNews. While the National Rally intends to relaunch the ban on the veil in public spaces, the philosopher and essayist refused to comply with this logic of stigmatization.

“Let people be left alone and let people dress as they want. What is this clothing police? “, he said. These remarks are all the more remarkable because they contrast with the permanent climate of suspicion maintained around Muslim women and their dress. For Mathias Leboeuf, this desire to ban the veil is based above all on a deeply misguided conception of secularism: “We think that secularism is the invisibility of religions. And when we start with this logic, we are off to a very bad start. »

He also dismantles one of the arguments most frequently put forward to justify restrictions on the veil: “No one has ever been able to explain to me how the veil is an act of proselytism. » In a media landscape where speeches hostile to the veil have become almost routine, the intellectual integrity of Mathias Leboeuf deserves to be underlined: to remember that secularism protects freedom of conscience and that it was never intended to establish a clothing police.

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Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.