I can understand this might be confusing, but secularism has no exceptions. If the clergy were persecuted in my country in the time of the republic almost a hundred years ago, if a people fought the power of their own religious leaders, separating God and man, I don't see why Islam would be an exception to this rule. In Europe, traditionally a person is first part of a country and its state and then part of a religion, not the other way around. Still, I feel it's a shame, because I think Muslim women deserve to be part of politics while practicing their religion, but Christians don't wear a cross either
I can understand this might be confusing, but secularism has no exceptions. If the clergy were persecuted in my country in the time of the republic almost a hundred years ago, if a people fought the power of their own religious leaders, separating God and man, I don't see why Islam would be an exception to this rule. In Europe, traditionally a person is first part of a country and its state and then part of a religion, not the other way around. Still, I feel it's a shame, because I think Muslim women deserve to be part of politics while practicing their religion, but Christians don't wear a cross either