Cecile Laborde is Reader in Political Theory at University College London. She is the author of "La Confrerie Layenne et les Lebous du Senegal" (1995), "Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France" (2000), and "Critical Republicanism," "The Hijab Controversy, Republican Theory and the Left" (2008). Her work on secularism, multiculturalism, patriotism, and republicanism has recently been published in "Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, British Journal of Political Science, Political Studies," and "Constellations," Current projects include the political philosophy of re...