I wouldn't call Catholics/Christians a religious minority (as they're affected by this law just as anybody else).
Just in schools, right? Discrimination is discrimination no matter how you justify it or how you limit it. Will they have separate water fountains and bathrooms for them next?
That law is there exactly to prevent that. No religious sign = everybody on the same level (in theory anyway).
In any case, the law was totally directed at Muslims.
It was not. Catholics kids cannot wear big crosses (then you'd ask : "what's 'big' ?", the answer would be : anything you can see), and same for Jewish kids about a star of david, and same thing for any other religion.
The main problem here would be that such "religious signs" for Muslims tend to be more visible than the
christian equivalent (using those two as an example here, it could apply to many other religions), so yes Muslims are more affected, but it doesn't mean they're the only target of this law.
Did they make it illegal for a Catholic priest to wear his collar? For some reason I think not.
No, because the law doesn't make it illegal for a muslim woman to wear a hijab, or a Sikh man to wear a turban in the streets either.
Especially burning down their OWN neighbourhood. Now if they were trashing some upper-class city, then yeah I'd understand the point of the protest. But burning your neighbour's car, who doesn't make that much of a living in the first place...
The issue IS about religious freedom, this point being about freedom FROM religion. The Joe-average french person usually see religious matters to be private, and best kept to yourself.
This of course causes problems with people with a different background-culture about religion.
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Especially burning down their OWN neighbourhood. Now if they were trashing some upper-class city, then yeah I'd understand the point of the protest. But burning your neighbour's car, who doesn't make that much of a living in the first place ...
The issue IS about religious freedom, this point being about freedom FROM religion. The Joe-average french person usually see religious matters to be private, and best kept to yourself. This of course causes problems with people with a different background-culture about religion.
Well my understanding of the thing is that they never were allowed to wear those in the first place (since the laïcité law from the early 1900s).