Analysis: France’s laïcité is preventing freedom of belief and encouraging the jihadist
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Andrew Brown asks how France can address the recent savage Jihadi violence, and hears experts suggest that the secular state makes a free discussion of the problems of religious extremism impossible for policy makers.