You're understanding of french values and society, especially of Laïcité [1], couldn't be farther from the trust.
Most french people take strongly to "Liberté Égalité Fraternité", and painting the whole country as hostile to minorities is extremely ignorant.
It is totally false to say that french freedom of speech permits to "constantly harass minorities by mocking them".
In fact our freedom of expression expressely forbids incitement to hatred. From wikipedia [2] :
"Press Law of 1881 criminalizes incitement to racial discrimination, hatred, or violence on the basis of one's origin or membership in an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group.A criminal code provision deems it an offense to engage in similar conduct via private communication"
However, satyre of ideas/symbols like religions and prophets is not the same thing as mocking people, and is an integral part of what we call laïcité.
You are missing the point that people, in their individuality as human beings, deserve respect but abstract concepts do not.
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_France
[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_ethnic_or_raci...
Most french people take strongly to "Liberté Égalité Fraternité", and painting the whole country as hostile to minorities is extremely ignorant.
It is totally false to say that french freedom of speech permits to "constantly harass minorities by mocking them".
In fact our freedom of expression expressely forbids incitement to hatred. From wikipedia [2] : "Press Law of 1881 criminalizes incitement to racial discrimination, hatred, or violence on the basis of one's origin or membership in an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group.A criminal code provision deems it an offense to engage in similar conduct via private communication"
However, satyre of ideas/symbols like religions and prophets is not the same thing as mocking people, and is an integral part of what we call laïcité.
You are missing the point that people, in their individuality as human beings, deserve respect but abstract concepts do not.
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_France
[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_ethnic_or_raci...