The problem that's stay here is not our secular society.

The French version of secular society, it's about being able to practice one's religion freely,

insofar as public order is maintained.

The secular society is our neutrality of the time.

France is at a cultural crossroads.

For more than a century, the country's social and political life has been built around

one particular idea, a secularism and universalism that places citizenship

above all individual traits and identities.

The French call this laïcité.

La laïcité, all the origin of the Western world is a comparison of the Western world.

We need to rethink the laïcité.

The only thing we want to use is the laïcité.

The subject of the atteint, the laïcité.

We've seen it.

But a rising generation of thinkers and activists.

Many of them French people of color are challenging the notion that ignoring race, religion

and colonial history can actually produce equality for all.

Now, a wave of terrorist attacks is pushing these issues into the public square and fueling a fierce culture war.

This is deconstructed in Anvanessa, AB, filling in for Ryan Grame this week.

On February 16th, Federique Vidal, the French minister of Advanced Education and Research,

announced a nationwide investigation into the country's public university system.

Her goal, to root out what she called Islamolectism.

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