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"Mr President, I would like to come back to a recent event, namely the Swiss vote on minarets. Admittedly, the vote was held in a country outside the European Union, but it clearly concerns an issue that is not unfamiliar to us.
I would like to come back to this event because it also provides an excuse to talk about secularism, and we can never talk enough about secularism in this House. There is an urgent need for the principle of secularism to dominate the organisation of our society. I would like to talk in simple terms here.
Firstly, the opposite principle to secularism is not religiousness and still less spirituality. The opposite principle to secularism is religious communitarianism which lays down regulations and laws that are above civil law and encloses individuals into infra-societal groups.
Our European Union, as a result of its history, is multicultural and multiethnic. It is and will increasingly be so, and only secularism can enable emancipated individuals and their communities to live and thrive."@en1
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