21/2024 L'EUROPE UNIE/UNITED EUROPE, PARIS, EU and its neighbours: resilience and multicultural harmony: L'Europe unie/United Europe - special volume - 21/2024 Paris-Cluj Napoca / coord.: Mihaela Natea, Simion Costea. Cluj-Napoca: Napoca Star, 2024, 120 pages, ISBN 978-606-062-997-9; PARIS: Print ISSN: 0248-2851, On line ISSN: 2743-4052, Linking ISSN (ISSN-L): 2743-4052, EAN: 99782749700519, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.18003.28969; https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=1955; La laïcité - valeur occidentale ou portée universelle?(Secularism - Western value or universal scope?) Author(s): MOHSEN NEFFATI Language: French Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Theology and Religion Issue: 21/21/2024 Page Range: 11-16 No. of Pages: 6 Keywords: EU; Secularism; Church; Islam; Religion; State; Integration Summary/Abstract: Secularism, Western value, or universal scope? Republican France is today ahead of the rest of the world, in the area of the secularization of morals, political life and the functioning of social life in general. These advances have enabled significant secularization and given France the system most conducive promote the secular principle. Currently, we are witnessing a return of religion in society, calling into question secularism and the separation between Church and State. Can this secularism claim to be universal? We propose some avenues for reflection in order to bring about the triumph of an “Islam of Enlightenment” in France and in the EU. We must recognize that holy war is outdated and useless and we must refuse any form of fundamentalism. In the Quran, there are as many verses which advocate peace as war. Muftis must favor the former, the peaceful ones. Imams must be confined to the mosque. We need to promote an Islam of Enlightenment.