Grim news from a French poll: One in four Muslims there is in "revolt" against secular laws

Grim news from a French poll: One in four Muslims there is in "revolt" against secular laws - Zip Dialog:
"There is some positive news in the survey. 

It shows that most Muslims accept restrictions on the public expression of religion, something France adopted in the nineteenth century to limit the power of the Catholic Church. 

They call it “laïcité” and it is a central feature of the French constitution, which proclaims France to be a secular republic (Article 1).

Comment: The university-sponsored poll shows France’s policies of immigration and multicultural integration have failed, and failed dramatically. 

This failure is a serious social problem in its own right, but it becomes far more serious when it is combined with the appeal of Islamic terrorism. 

That’s not just a problem in France. 

It reverberates across Europe...

Why do so many French Muslims reject secular laws?

The conventional sociological explanation is that they are marginalized and often poor. 

That’s surely part of the answer. 

But so is another issue that is rarely discussed in polite society. 

The Muslim world never went through the long, painful process of limiting religious institutions’ control over the state. 

In the Christian West, that process began in the 11th century, with the Investiture Controversy between Pope Gregory VII and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. 

It continued for centuries and gradually became a common feature of all constitutional governments in the West...

In the Islamic world, by contrast, religious authorities dominated the state from the Prophet onward. There is no textual warrant for their separation or for the dominate role of man-made law (what we in the West call “positive law.”) 

That’s the whole point of ISIS saying it will restore the Caliphate, in which religious rulers dominate society and all law is Sharia..."