Member of European Parliament Seeks Exclusion of Christianity

Case information
Incident date
Geographic scope
EU / supranational
Categories
  • Government Restrictions
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Political
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)

Belgian socialist Member of the European Parliament, Veronique De Keyser called in an e-mail to all MEPs and all assistants for “general mobilisation against obscurantism”. With "Obscurantism" she seems to mean Christianity, as she continues to say: “A Europe which is open and respectful of all beliefs and philosophical convictions cannot be one that puts Christian roots to the forefront. This is not Europe! Europe is one of Enlightenment, a Europe of free thinking, a Europe of separation of state and church.”

Source: The email of Mrs. de Keyser was passed on to the Observatory.