This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, October 28th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown. The brutal killing of a school teacher at France over images of Mohammed displayed in class comes at the same time that

French president Macron hopes to reform the practice of Islam in France.

What are the implications for the freedom of speech?

Fleming Rose is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute we spoke this week.

Before we get into the substance of these attacks, you noted before we started recording that it's important to understand that France as a country was like the United States founded on a set of ideals.

Yes, and this goes back to on a set of ideals.

Yes, and this goes back to, you know, the French Revolution and the Declaration of Man.

These are the ideals of the republic, implying that in France, when you are out in the public

domain you do not meet one another as you know a Muslim

Christians atheist immigrant non-immigrant but as citizens, as equal citizens.

And this teacher who recently was killed and beheaded in France,

he was in fact teaching a class, the principles of civic education in France and

and one of the one of the foundational ideas of France is the secular state and principles of freedom of religion and freedom of expression. And as part of this,

and as part of this class he was showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, I think two cartoons that had been published by the

satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo some years ago.

And as our listeners probably know in 2015

12 journalists and cartoonist

at Charlie Hebdo's Those Offices in France were attacked by two brothers

radical Islamist and they were killed.

In this most recent attack, this teacher, which we haven't mentioned yet, was beheaded.

Yes.

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