French back a ban on religious symbols at work

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62. Muslims are approximately 12% of the total French population

With a whopping 84% of the country supporting this proposed ban, more than a few Muslims must also be supportive.

Its not logical that the entire French Muslim population (12%) are included in the 16% that don't support the ban since Christians (crosses) and Jews (yarmulkes and star of david jewelry) and Sikhs (headgear) must also be part of that 16%. Self identified Christians alone are something like 45% of the population and presumably make up the majority of the 16% that oppose this.

So if French Muslims aren't seeing this as problematic (which my first reaction is that this is blatantly targeting them), I'm going to theorize that France's historic emphasis on public secularity is really the issue here.

Maintaining that secularity has always been a big deal since the Revolution.

Really interesting.