High school students mostly reject French secularism, according to a survey

High school students reject French-style secularism and want to be more tolerant.

This is what an Ifop poll, published Wednesday and commissioned by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) and the

magazine, reveals

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The idea of ​​this survey is first of all to "better understand the place that high school students today give to religion, the meaning they give to secularism in the school environment but also their point of view on the law to 'blaspheme', ”the magazine said.

First observation: high school students are more flexible regarding the wearing of religious symbols by school guides, who are often parents.

They are 57% in favor, against 26% in French society as a whole.

The same goes for the wearing of signs by their comrades.

More than half of them say they don't have a problem with it.

 17% think Samuel Paty was wrong to show the cartoons

An inclusive secularism, which must put all religions on an equal footing, is emerging among the young people questioned.

And religions should not be confined to the private sphere according to them.

As a corollary of this conception, 37% of high school students believe that the current laws on secularism discriminate against Muslims.

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When we ask students about the right to caricature religions, a little more than half are not in favor.

More worryingly, 10% of them do not express any condemnation or are indifferent to the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Kosher attacks.

Finally, 17% believe that Samuel Paty was wrong to show caricatures of the prophet in class.

Conversely, 61% of high school students surveyed still consider that he was right to do so.