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> That show was blasphemy!
The concept of blasphemy (the action of speaking sacrilegiously about a god or the sacred) may speak to you, but it explicitly does not exist in secular France [i]. In France, religions are treated as mere ideas, and like all ideas, they can be examined, praised, criticized, and even mocked. In the eyes of the secular French republic, no text or religious icon deserves special protection, no matter how holy to some.
That aspect of freedom of speech is as foundational to the French as the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is to Americans.
Of course, people whose identity is rooted in faith might take offense at that, which leads me to... 2/9 6 replies
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