Come on , you miss a lot of context here. Islam is not singled out at all, French people bash on ALL religion quite often since at least 1905 and the religious civil war.
eglise = church
Atheism is not seen the same in France and anglo countries, and the right to criticize or mock any religion , anytime, in any way, even if it's insulting is something we litteraly fought for and try to keep because we find it healthy. When a religion starts to be untouchable, higher than the liberty of speech/criticize/mock or even insult, that's when you start to have problems in your country. And yes normal people differenciate easily between the religion and the people behind.
Doesnt mean you need to like the message, but everybody has the right to deliver this message without being harassed or more.
Yes far right in France too is centered on islam and only islam, and it's hard to not see racist intent behind. But the negative view of islam and any other religion including christianity, in France, is FAR from coming from the far right or having racist intents.
Thats why we have so many comics and critics that don't hesitate to speak , mock , or satire religion, charlie hebdo being only the sadly famous one of many.
A mole in the Vatican. The pope: "it changes me of the choirboys".
Thing is today in France you don't recieve death threats when you ridicule or insult christianity ( and we clearly , clearly do) , you don't have journalists killed when they do a satire of jesus, or mixing pedophile stories and the vatican...
But it clearly happens when you touch islam, and this is what really singles it out in France today, not racism. When we have death threats , journalists killed, terrorist attacks and 25% of muslims in France that thinks that chariah law should be higher than the law of the country, not even speaking about journalists/comics, it's not hard to single out a religious extremist current that grows in the country.
Christianity is being mocked and ridiculed at least as much as islam, and as violently. A couple of days before this 16 year old girl story i was listening to a radio comic on
one of the main radio channel of France ridiculing jesus on a song that would have shocked half of resetera people it seems. and its something else than a tweet from a harassed 16yo girl lost on internet.
So resetera should stop trying to concentrate on finding if it's racist or not and maybe we should discuss about the real problem here : why there is thousands of death threats when you touch a religion, and why some people think it's normal.