“We will take care of you“, “we hope you swallow acid“, “it’s better not to end up on the street in rags Charlie Hebdo”… Here is a brief overview of the messages that 20-year-old student Florian Guge and 17-year-old high school student Martin Lohm received on social media. Both are young activists with different paths in life, but they find themselves around the same struggle to defend secularism and, more broadly, republican values such as “freedom of speech, caricature and blasphemy“.
In a context that seesThe resurgence of religious fanaticism since the late 1980s, the fatwa against the writer Salman Rushdie, as well as the return of political demands related to religion.– analyzes the philosopher Henri Peña-Ruiz, the struggle for the protection of secularism has been shaken. Witness the waves of hate that secular activists have received in France for several years.
A disturbing revelation
Floriane’s public commitment…
Source: Le Figaro
