What it means to be secular in an age of extremism

Last month, a series of local bans enacted by French mayors on the wearing of "burkinis" — a type of body-covering Islamic swimwear — generated global furor. Images of armed French police forcing a burkini-clad woman to partially disrobe on a beach outraged observers elsewhere. The whole thing, argued critics, smacked of hypocrisy and sexism. A […]

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