What I want is distinct from what I expect the State to do on my behalf. I dislike fundamentalist Islam, and I believe its practice to be incompatible with the French secular state. This is because fundamentalist Islam is incapable of recognising any authority higher than Islam itself, and therefore rejects the authority of any secular state. This is factual, and not fantasy on my part.

However, I don't wish for the state to somehow intervene to "reform Islam", or interfere with its practices, insofar as they stay within the law. That would be unwarranted interference.  I would prefer fundamentalist Islam to wither away, within France at least.

As I wrote in an earlier post, I believe some state intervention would be justified to level the playing field. I believe that the established churches (mainly Catholic, in France) benefit from an unwarranted subsidy, and I would be in favour of redistribution which would facilitate the provision of places of worship for Moslems (this seems to be so uncontroversial that it has warranted no comments so far!)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}