Canada’s largest Muslim organisation is outraged over a bill introduced by the Quebec government that would ban headscarves for school support staff and students.
“In Quebec, we made the decision that state and the religion are separate,” said Education Minister Bernard Drainville, CBC News reported. “And today, we say the public schools are separate from religion.”
But the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), who are challenging in the Supreme Court the original bill that forbids religious symbols being worn by teachers, say the new bill is another infringement on their rights and unfairly targets hijab-wearing Muslims.
“This renewed attack on the fundamental rights of our community is just one of several recent actions taken by this historically unpopular government to bolster their poll numbers by attacking the rights of Muslim Canadians,” the NCCM said in a social media post.
Nobody is stopping people protest against Israel in the USA. They just have to choose another country or stop protesting? This is how stupid your argument is
Yes, sometimes i will sound stupid. But about the genocide committed by Israel : it is much more important than any idiotic hijab or whatever pieces of clothes.
Protecting harmless freedom of expression is a lot less important than a genocide but still important.
Yes some things are much more important than others, still …
Do you know this whole debate about stupid religious signs in Quebec came once again because there has been disregard of basic rights (life threatening) in some schools for non-religious children ?