1. France does not recognise religious law as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions.

2. In Judaism, religious law orders that baby boys be Circumcised on the 8th day after their birth

3. I simply believe that when one enters the public realm, the laws of the Republic must prevail over religious law."

4. In a statement later on Thursday, Leon said it was not good enough to "simply invoke multi-culturalism or the imposition of religious law to rationalise or 'Contextualise' this inhuman sentence"

5. The constitution provided for equal rights for all citizens without distinction of race or creed, abolition of slavery, an independent judiciary based on civil (rather than religious) law, universal elementary education, and a bicameral parliament, with a Senate appointed by the Sultan and a directly-elected Chamber of Deputies.

6. ‘The man who had ruled his country with a brutal and inflexible religious law was now ‘an Absconder, a fugitive from justice’ he said.’ ‘Our goal is to stabilize the ratio of people who are now becoming Absconders or fugitives and the number of people we're removing from the country.’

7. ‘The man who had ruled his country with a brutal and inflexible religious law was now ‘an Absconder, a fugitive from justice’ he said.’ ‘Our goal is to stabilize the ratio of people who are now becoming Absconders or fugitives and the number of people we're removing from the country.’