RATP And Its Selective Laicities

A telling tweet here.

The RATP (Régie autonome des transports parisiens) — that is, the French subway-bus-rail system in the area of Greater Paris — has denied approval for the placing of posters announcing a gathering to protest the treatment, including mass murder, of Christians by Muslims in the Middle East, and to raise money to aid those Christians now displaced from their homes, and countries. The four priests on the poster were deemed to violate the principle of “laicity.” At the same time, the RATP has permitted  posters showing a hijabbed lady with her phone card, announcing cheap rates for telephone calls overseas, to her true home in North Africa, or the Middle East.

More comment on this here.

A case of selective laicities.