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Nov 2020
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French secularism and the resurgence of ...

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Over the last few weeks, Islamist terror attacks in France, and then Austria shook Europe, and the world. In response, the UK has also raised its terror threat level to "severe". But the French President Emmanuel Macron's response to the attacks has sent ripples of anger through the Muslim world. Today we take a deeper look at French secularism and the Muslim community in France.


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Guest: Peter Conradi, Europe Editor, The Sunday Times.


Host: Manveen Rana.


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