Cut The Clutter: Macron’s France Vs Anglo-American liberalism: religious radicalism or radical secularism

Leading western liberal intellectuals & publications including Financial TImes, Politico, Washington Post, New York Times have criticised the French idea of secularism, some even calling it 'radical'. The French though see this as a perverted justification of terrorist attacks & victim-blaming. President Emmanuel Macron has reacted sharply. In episode 619 of ThePrint's #CutTheClutter Shekhar Gupta unravels this fascinating tiff between anglo-american media/intelligentsia and France. ----more----Brought to you by Tata Motors https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDxNSMn2l95fyHzPATAYOcg----more----Shekhar Gupta's National Interest on Problems in Global Islam:  https://theprint.in/national-interest/5-reasons-for-the-crisis-in-global-islam/534270/----more----Mehreen Khan's deleted article from Financial Times https://web.archive.org/web/20201103052118/https://www.ft.com/content/016b5b65-a220-48ea-a330-9d13855892ab----more----Farhad Khosrokhavar's deleted article from Politico https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/10/the-dangerous-french-religion-of-secularism-politico.html----more----Macron's letter to Financial Times:  https://www.ft.com/content/8e459097-4b9a-4e04-a344-4262488e7754----more----James McAuley's article in the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/macron-france-reform-islam-paty/2020/10/23/f1a0232c-148b-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html----more----Ben Smith's article in New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/business/media/macron-france-terrorism-american-islam.html----more----Good journalism needs support from smart people like you. Subscribe to ThePrint here: https://theprint.in/subscribe/