Hijab in French public schools

Hijab is now almost officially banned in French public schools. An anti-hijab ban was passed with an overwhelming majority in the French Parliament. What is next? Other European countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, are expected to follow in the French footsteps.
Oversimplified dogmas such as “Islamophobia,” “secular fundamentalism,” and even arguments such as “Handed to fanatics on a silver platter” or “This is a violation of my individual right” are no longer solutions to the size of the problem we now face. They will simply take us nowhere.
Victimization is now self-betrayal.
One needs to maturely assess what happened--paying attention to history, politics, law, society, demography, philosophy and culture. A truthful exercise of “self-examination” is the imperative problem-solving action at the moment. So far we have tried to take that path, in our attempt to act by a true and well-informed Islamic spirit, parting as much as possible from random misinformed ranting that does little but further fuel emotional bursts.
Both the particularity of the French political model and the French Muslim community should be examined, both in the global context and in comparison to their counterparts in other countries. It is not enough to criticize France without pinpointing some of the key characteristics of the distinctive French Muslim population. Problematic questions such as “assimilation,” “conspicuousness” and “defense of national values” partly underlie existing problems on the Muslim part.
Nonetheless, we should tactically look ahead. Plain and trouble-free as it appears to be to some, what happened is a sad chapter in the story of the demographic neutralization of Muslims in the “liberal” space of Europe. When tolerance is not an option, ideological indoctrination and “veiled” political freedom is not necessarily the right solution. This is at the heart of how far the secular nation-state project can go: to forcefully strip one of any differences to a one-sided perception of the norm.
Are Muslims now the new subjects to the experiments of modern statecraft?