The following two articles I read earlier are not analyses of these laws specifically, but I found them useful to understand a little bit about the French persp

The following two articles I read earlier are not analyses of these laws specifically, but I found them useful to understand a little bit about the French perspective: • One of these two — https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/caroline-fourest-liberalism-france https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/caroline-fo... (“Why the American Press Keeps Getting Terror in France Wrong”) and https://unherd.com/2020/10/why-is-the-anglo-media-portaying-france-as-the-villain/ https://unherd.com/2020/10/why-is-the-anglo-media-portaying-... (“Why is the Anglo media portraying France as the villain?”) — points out ways in which the English-language media seems to have a different perspective from the French. For example, after a sword-wielding maniac decapitated a teacher on the street and was shot by the police, the New York Times framed it in the context of ongoing American conversations about police violence, emphasizing the police response more than the beheading (original headline “French Police Shoot and Kill Man After a Fatal Knife Attack on the Street”). • This one — https://unherd.com/2020/11/the-age-old-clash-between-islam-and-france/ https://unherd.com/2020/11/the-age-old-clash-between-islam-a... (”The age-old tension between Islam and France”) — takes a longer view, and it does not take the position of saying that Islamic values are against obviously-good French values: it shows how French/Western values have also sought to impose themselves on the Islamic world in an uneasy way, starting from when Napoleon took to Egypt “a printing press, a hot-air balloon and a small army of intellectuals”.