English
In order to understand the stakes and consequences of the Jan 2015 events in Paris, it is important to observe how public attention on Islam and Muslims generates a certain stage and a certain construction of public issues identified with religion. The irruption of political violence accelerates the institutionalization of suspicion towards Muslim populations in France. So far, political, legal and administrative reactions attempted to inject a more rigorous laicism in the French schools and public spaces have reinforced a tendency towards a mono-linguistic national-secularist public space, which doesn’t bode well for the future.