Thread- @washingtonpost today: "“This is what happens when we normalize anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic speech and discrimination — a hijab ban that violates religious freedom. Regulating Muslim women’s bodies in the name of secularism is both Islamophobic and oppressive.”

1- Muslim and Islamic are not the same. One cannot speak ill of Muslims, but can certainly say whatever they please about Islam the religion (and any other religion). This is freedom of speech (maybe French writer doesn't get it).

2- It is not secularism that regulates Muslim women's bodies. It is Islamic tradition that does. Secularism wants to supersede this tradition because French are all expected to be similar. In US, we have a different way of dealing with it, though some take diversity to gutters.

3- And as if all we need in our mud-slinging hyper partisanship in America is to fight over secularism v Muslim women veil in France. Some are trying hard to make identity politics cross borders. When whites do so, we call them supremacists.

4- Finally, perhaps the Post can act patriotic for one day, and brag how in America, we don't regulate religion or clothing. Our freedom also means we can like or dislike Muslim women veil. Why invite French authors with their crap? Why not show off America's better arrangement?