French lawmakers are debating a bill designed to ensure that Muslim immigrants honor the nation’s traditions, including its official policy of government secularism.

The bill takes aim at “Islamism,” the idea that Muslims should live separately from larger French culture and society. Many French politicians believe that separatism encourages the spread of radicalized forms of Islam and terrorism.

Under the bill, Islamic home-schooling and unaccredited private academies would be shuttered. Steps would be taken to ensure that mosques do not fall under the control of forces outside the country and forced marriages would be banned, reported Religion News Service.

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Americans United & the National Women’s Law Center file suit to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans.

Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. Americans United and the National Women’s Law Center—the leading experts in religious freedom and gender justice—have joined forces with thirteen clergy from six faith traditions to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans as unconstitutionally imposing one narrow religious doctrine on everyone.


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