JDME @ Did you read my previous post . You are doing same thing again by comparing theocratic state with secular. French is not Christian country lol
You are saying it with pride that Christianity and other religion get mocked in west. Why any sane person will mock religion or will burn religious scripture?
Why would any sane person believe in those books Lets not discuss people's sanity. In west (or any free country), people do it because they can. They do it, to prove a point. TO show to the world that we are not a fundamentalist nation. They are not just burning books all the time. Idea is that they can and that's what matters to them.
As to France, yes it's not a christian nation. If it were, they would simply close all Mosques in France. Would they have even dreamed of doing anything like this even 15 years ago? No. But anti-Muslim sentiment is growing all over west for a while now. French people see Viel as their nation's failure to assimilate people. They are simply sending a message, my way or highway. Is France more right wing than before? Perhaps. But their land, their law.