DILEMA NEGARA SEKULER PRANCIS: DI ANTARA TARIKAN ISLAMOFOBIA DAN FUNDAMENTALISME AGAMA

Abstract

This article aims to examines that the secularist system of the French Republic, which is often used as the prototype of the modern state, cannot be generalized as the only model for all countries. This research is a descriptive method with a literature study that examines various sources about the secularism system of the French Republic. The results obtained are the French Laicite concept is still a process that has not yet reached the final word in the course of the standard concept of the nation state. Initially, secularism was built on a mission to celebrate equality and freedom of all citizens, while avoiding tensions in relations between religion and the state. In practice, the concept of secularism runs with a Eurocentrism bias that has a dark history in the past. Meanwhile, Europe is often biased in upholding its universal ethics in the form of human rights and democracy, as reflected in several cases of banning the veil or veil symbol in public spaces. Responding to the case of Islamic fundamentalism in France, it is necessary to revisit the initial process of the arrival of Muslim immigrants from the third world, which still leaves problems of social integration, economic access, and access to educational services which should be a public matter for all equal citizens of the republic.