Yeah ive heard their say, and it involves me being killed. Not a fan of this law, but you cannot pretend it's not exploiting the presence of a very real problem.

When you believe in unfalsifiable cosmic moral absolutes, especially those untethered from material reality, and use that to justify your worst impulses, you're gonna do some fucked up shit, and can't really be talked down.

The in group that wants to place their will on the out group. Thats how it typically goes. While I say that nobody has a right to place their beliefs on others. Thats a not a right in any sense, not human right, nor government appointed right. Evangelism aka witnessing your faith isn’t a right. Your ability to hold your beliefs and practice them in your place of worship and home is. There’s a difference

Based on just the article linked, it sounds more like they're prohibiting the use of publicly owned property or public funding to enable religious expression. In the context of a French legal tradition I don't really see how prohibiting the use of public property in religious expression is the same as banning expression generally except in private. I think conflating the two is a bit of a tortured analogy grounded in American legal thought, although I do agree that it seems motivated, at least in large part, by Islamophobia.

It probably pertains to public (government) places. Like public schools and such. At least thats how it’s been viewed in America.

And don’t be silly, you know there is a difference between different kinds of speech. Thats how we also know the difference between hate speech, threats, verbal abuse, and profane speech and normal speech. Sure, a really dense lawyer can argue all day about the nuances of it, but a jury of peers or a society at large can come to a consensus of what is what.

if I pray to

Yes.

Adam was an ape.

What bothers me about this perspective is the implicit assumption that everyone who thinks that public displays of religion should be banned is actually motivated by racism, rather than recognising that somebody can be against this for non-racist reasons.

It’s not racism with more steps. You don’t even know it has not been enforced improperly. It’s a lot easier to enforce enforcement than it is to stop people ruining the world

It's recent, didn't used to be a thing.

Well I don't feel very comfortable in a space like that personally.