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France’s biggest Muslim school went from accolades to defunding – showing a key paradox in how the country treats Islam

  • Written by Carol Ferrara, Anthropologist & Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Communication, Emerson College
imageStudents attend a class at the Averroès school in Lille, France, in September 2023.Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images

France is famously strict on enforcing what it calls “laïcité”: keeping religion out of the public sphere. Yet more than 7,500 private schools receive government funding, and most are Catholic. In a...

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