05 April 2019

Religious symbols: 'It is time to stop denying racism' in Quebec, coalition says

Seven groups including Amnesty International and Quebec’s main women’s federation attacked the secularism bill as discriminatory.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/religious-symbols-civil-liberties-muslim-groups-vow-to-fight-bill-21

Groups opposed to the Legault government’s proposed law on state secularism wasted no time Friday skewering the plan as “racist”, saying it presumes that only a heterosexual white male can be impartial and lays the groundwork for veiled Muslim women to suffer “daily violence” if it is adopted.
Bill 21 would ban the wearing of religious symbols by some Quebec government employees, including police officers, prison guards and elementary and high-school teachers.
Safa Chebbi, of the Table de concertation contre le racisme systémique, described the proposed law as clearly racist.

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