God, Paris and Islam: How Salafism Challenges France’s Church-State Relationship

December 3, 2015 Topic: Society Region: Europe Tags: FranceTerrorismIslamReligionSecularism

God, Paris and Islam: How Salafism Challenges France’s Church-State Relationship

No security measure can conclusively safeguard France so long as Salafism, in all its ideological stripes, is left unchecked.

 

Robert G. Rabil is a Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of most recently of Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism (Georgetown University Press, 2014). The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of FAU. 

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