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The increased number of female students wearing an Islamic veil at university is relaunching the request for an extension of the law of March 15, 2004, which restricts the wearing of signs or outfits showing religious affiliation in schools, public colleges, and high schools, to the entire education system, in application of the principle of secularism. The Observatoire de la laïcité (Secularism Observatory) opposes this request, and justifies the authorization of conspicuous religious signs at university with the age of university students, permission granted by universities, and the polysemy of the Islamic veil. This article aims to analyze the gap between the law, scientific knowledge, and these arguments. It also highlights the difference between institutional discourse and lived experience in a university establishment. By moving away from the common constitutional code, which unites democracy, secularism, and indivisibility of the French Republic, the institutional communication of the Secularism Observatory becomes an acommunication and causes a deep uneasiness at university. It allows the dissemination of ideals that are hardly compatible with democracy to a learning public.