Quebec has passed a law banning public service workers, and also those who receive services, from wearing face coverings. This means that everyone who uses public transit and government services must now unveil.
Quebec’s Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée stated that “having your face uncovered is a legitimate question of communication, identification and security”; but the Quebec National Assembly’s adoption of Bill 62 to ban the burqa is not sitting well with everyone. Some insist that it is a violation of human rights.
For example:
Nicole Filion, coordinator of the Ligue des droits et libertés, a human-rights defence group, warned that the law will “have a discriminatory effect on religious groups who are targeted, in particular women
Meanwhile, newly elected Federal NDP (New Democratic Party) leader Jagmeet Singh took a “stronger stance against the law than the Liberal government, which has so far been reluctant to condemn it outright.”
Singh also called the ban a violation of human rights. Singh needs to stop his shameful politicking and pretending to care about human rights. He and Nicole Filion should research enough to know that women are treated as inferiors in countries where the burqa is mandated, and that according to the sharia, women are deemed to be inferior to men. In the words of the well-known women’s rights advocate Aayan Hirsi Ali, who has personally suffered under the strictures of the sharia:
Burkas ought to be banned for security reasons. But for me the issue is not security alone. It is the equality of women. Expecting half of humanity to go around covered in black sacks is just evil sexism. We should no more want to see it imported into Australia than we should want to see wife-beating legalised.
I will repeat a sad story I was personally told by a blood lab technician. She told me she witnessed many women wearing full burqas come to the blood clinic for tests and have their husbands answer their medical questions. When they finally roll up their sleeves for the test, clinic workers saw bruises and burns, but did not report them for fear of being branded racists and “Islamophobes.” These women also suffer from vitamin D deficiencies, not to mention the torture of having to wear full coverings in scorching temperatures. If the burqa and all it represents is being advocated by NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Canadians beware.
Other countries that have implemented full or partial burqa bans are France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Congo-Brazzaville, Turkey, and Switzerland.
“Quebec passes bill banning niqab, burka while receiving public services”, by Graeme Hamilton, National Post, October 18, 2017:
MONTREAL – Niqab-wearing Quebec women who want to ride the bus, visit the library, go for a medical check-up or meet with their child’s teacher are now legally required to uncover their faces while receiving provincial and municipal government services.
Quebec’s National Assembly adopted Bill 62 Wednesday morning, a controversial law that is the Liberal government’s answer to a decade-long debate over the accommodation of religious minorities in the province.
The bill passed despite opposition from the Parti Québécois and Coalition Avenir Québec, which argued the legislation does not go far enough in restricting the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols.
Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée has maintained that the bill’s requirement that government services be provided and received with the face uncovered is not aimed at any religious group.
“Having your face uncovered is a legitimate question of communication, identification and security,” she said on the eve of the bill’s adoption. But the title of the law — “An act to foster adherence to State religious neutrality” — leaves little doubt of the true motivation.
Initially aimed only at provincial services, the Liberals widened the law’s scope in August to embody municipal services, including public transit and subsidized housing offices.
Vallée this week clarified that the ban, which comes into force as soon as it receives assent from the lieutenant-governor in the coming days, will apply for the full time that a service is rendered. In other words, it would not be enough for a woman to show her face as she boards a bus; she would have to keep it uncovered for her entire trip.
Nicole Filion, coordinator of the Ligue des droits et libertés, a human-rights defence group, warned that the law will “have a discriminatory effect on religious groups who are targeted, in particular women.”…
Pet Charles says
Even Turkey has banned it. I want to see if Erdogan will reinstate it.
David G. says
Yes, he eventually will. He is taking baby steps with his plans.
MFritz says
It will happen. The more he alienates his country from the rest of the world the more he has to rely on his fundamentalist political base. And they will not rest until they have FULL sharia up and running.
Creole Gumbo says
I think Erdogan has already reinstated it. Mustafa Attaturk made Turkey a secular state in 1923 and headscarfs were de facto banned for all public employees. But in the 80s women began wearing them and they not legally banned until the late 90s. But in 2013 the ban was lifted.
Dov Berrol says
A great step in restricting mysoginistic Sharia law in Canada. Hopefully, this will help provide some measure of freedom to Muslim girls in Quebec, and give them some support in the face of oppressive men in their families and communities. Felicitations, Quebec!
George says
There is no such thing as oppressive Muslim men, only Muslim men who practice Islam. The only thing that could solve this problem is to give every Muslim family in Canada a one way ticket to an Islamic state of their choice.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
+1
strats4ever says
One of the few times the Liberal Party of Quebec of Quebec does something right….. and their being called racists by the MSM – quelle surpise.
http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/allison-hanes-bill-62-is-a-racist-sexist-disgraceful-law
“Fake” feminist – perhaps Anni Cryus could (slowly) explain to this idiot?
Darth says
He is a feminazi mangina. On international women’s day he congratulated himself for his work in misogyny.
On CBC they were having a panel discussion on political candidates and the one mentioned how the one male candidate was a self declared feminist with the other one running him down for being Christian. The third explained to the host “we are in a post secular humanist era that thankfully secular feminism has become the social norm. It is not enough to be a feminist by declaration but you must demonstrate the full adherence to secular feminism.”
I was so shocked that I asked my personal women’s college teacher what secular feminism is and the response floored me. Secular feminism is the complete liberal progressive ideology applied to all facets of life and society from politics to economics to domestic ideologies to childbearing and the legal systems. It is a perversion of secular humanism that has applied feminine ideologies to every aspect of society and life.
I believe that the panel and CBC slipped on that panel by disclosing the true agenda of the academics and thier infiltration into Canadian politics.
Justin Trudeau is a puppet whose accomplishment is drama teacher. His handlers are extreme left wing and control every aspect of him as demonstrated by when he goes off script and demonstrates his below average IQ and his contradictory opinions because they are his instead of his scripts.
Justin Trudeau is an actor and his handlers are secular feminists who are trying to implement a new type of society. It us really scary.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Interesting, thanks for the post. Islam seems a strange bedfellow for these feminist dykes no?
Chris says
When I began reading your comment I thought it was going to be a joke about a feminist, a Christian and a post secular humanist. They walk into a bar etc.
But seriously I agree, it is all very scary.
Dov Berrol says
Even Egypt is set to ban face coverings in public spaces….maybe the Montreal Gazette could send a few of their feminist reporters to Cairo and explain to Egyptians how “racist” they are? See link:
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/africa/100417/egypt-to-ban-burqa-in-public-places-govt-institutions-drafts-bill.html
thomas says
According to a Rebel Media video, a Muslim’s picture on her gun card can have the face masked.
Completely worthless for ID purposes.
strats4ever says
“a Muslim’s picture on her gun card can have the face masked. ”
The Quebec law only covers municipal/provincial services.Guns are federal (ie Trudope).
thomas says
You are correct. I was talking about Federal Canadian gun card. See this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn2Hn85zMag&t=202s
Michael Copeland says
Does Nicole Filion think the niqab itself might have “a discriminatory effect on … women”?
Anti-jihad says
Bravo to Quebec. No one, whether they’re Muslim or not, should be allowed to cover their face in public for obvious reasons like communication, identification, and security. This ban does not target Muslims.
Ren says
Quebec does not pass bill banning the tchador and the hidjab, both the symbol of islam.
common sense says
Ban the Koran and bull doze mosques, that would be a good start. Is there anything else to be done?
Linde Barrera says
I am happy to read this good news. Thank you Quebec! I hope other nations will follow.
Japetto Donatelli says
Islamic head coverings like the niqab and burka should be banned in every nation on earth as a human rights violation against women.
And consider this, if such head coverings are deemed to be a security threat, and rightly so, then wouldn’t it make sense to consider islam’s violent doctrines a threat too? The religiopolitical doctrines and traditions that muslims import are the undergirding for islam’s culture of abuse and war-like threats against our nation(s). They are the inspiration for thousands of terrorist acts for the purpose of advancing the islamic culture and religion above our own. Those doctrines are what compel muslims to build stand-offish enclaves and rape our people and to exploit our own freedoms against us. Islamic doctrine is contemptuous of us and so muslims are too. What I’m saying here is supported by the facts. But instead of pursuing the logic of a ban on burkas, our leaders insist that islam is peaceful and that the muslims who live it don’t want to kill us. Well of course many muslims don’t want to kill us, but not all of Hitler’s Nazi’s killed Jews and gypsies either, but they aided their cause with votes and various levels of aid and participation. That’s how I see most muslims, as silent and stealthy collaborators whose “religious” allegiance can’t help but be a threat to us. Gosh, they’re so peaceful and nice, they don’t tie the noose around our necks, they only help those that do.
If the burka is a threat to security then islam’s hateful doctrines are infinitely more of a threat. It’s time our leaders stop calling islam a peaceful religion and start taking responsible action to mitigate the threat with sensible policies that protect us. No more lies and excuses to protect islam’s bigoted agenda, we want moral politicians not political traitors who sell us out for some hate-filled demon.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Waiting for next violent outburst of peaceful islam in Quebec…..
Terry Gain says
Muslim women who wear masks and tents because misogynist Islam requires it, demonstrate a lack of respect for western traditions. We are an open-faced society and we also believe that the human body is beautiful.
Ric says
Well said, Tery Gain, I understand there is an uproar from other politicos across Canada. I am sure, too, Trudeau will have difficulty censuring Quebec’s decision, not wanting to p-off this Liberal stronghold. Undoubtedly, Justin will blather eventually regarding this mandate. It will be interesting, possibly entertaining.
One suspects, it will be fought tooth-and-nail and eventually be settled one way or the other in the Supreme Court of Canada. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court is part-and-parcel of the progressive disorder, too; I may be wrong. In the USA, undoubtedly, this would be deemed as racist within the judiciary and on the streets. Congratulations to the province of Quebec for its jurisprudence.
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1
Tom says
Common sense in Quebec !! What next ??
I would never have thought that Quebec would lead Canada in the resistance against Islamic creep to change our way of life.
Good for Quebec !! You have rekindled my faith in my fellow Canadians.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yeah, its like that with France proper – who would have thought the leader of Euro-Arab integration would be also the leader in banning Islamic dress codes? Seems that their common obsession with leftward secularity has lead them both to resist, in some small and perhaps meaningless way, the cultural Jihad.
unbeleiver1 says
Singh is digging his own grave and that of his NDP party as far as getting votes in Quebec by stepping into this fray. Trudeau may give an ambivalent response after feeling out the amount of support for this bill by the Quebec masses.The NDP knows that they may never win an election are apt to be more daring than the Liberals in opposing bill 62.Singh is playing to his base.
Today I mentioned the niqab/burka ban to a Syrian refugee and his response was,”Good.I’m happy.”
This is a guy who had to abandon his business in the city of Allepo and leave the country for his and his family’s safety.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Shame that man and others like him won’t make press or CBC interview…..but then, when did the CBC we pay for ever feel the need to give balance. Ever.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I celebrated Singh’s win of the NDP leadership. It will make the card carrying union member (a big part of the NDP voting base) perceive that the NDP does not represent their interests.
The decision of the NDP membership to choose a devout Sikh will drive the NDP farther into the wilderness and eventually make it nothing more than a fringe party. Far left parties don’t tend to merge so they will start to drop off the map, one by one (as long as Canada does not implement proportional representation ).
Barry Donnelly says
Once in awhile those Frenchmen really surprise Ya !!!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Quebecers don’t care what people think when it comes to their laws that try to preserve their language and culture. They’ve been fighting this fight since the Plains of Abraham. They’ve become hardened to any criticism (their language laws and their disregard for “le vote ethnique”) and I believe that this hardness will serve them well in their fight against “islamification.” Unlike English Canada, they feel no need to be PC about it.
In the long run, the “Québécois de souche” will probably come out of this fight far better off than the “Canadian” in English Canada will.
Ewanda says
Thank goodness for the passing of this law. It makes us all a little safer. Without outward identification of Ideology, terrorists won’t be able to avoid singling out their women among their targets. It is an equalizer. Islamic women will have to stand shoulder to shoulder with Western women and take their chances along with the rest of us. The next step is to ban the burka and hijab in public as well. As stated by experts in Islam, these outward signs are worship and devotion to Sharia.
I am very troubled because the Ontario Legislature just voted unanimously to condemn Quebec’s action. It just shows how much hard work is ahead to get these Dhimmis informed. Time is short.
For Mohammad to be right about women, the smartest woman in the world has to be half as smart as the dumbest man!!! We know this is not true. One chink in the armour makes other weaknesses possible. Why are we playing the game according to their rules?
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Thank You, Québec! Sanity rules!
Leonidis The Westisthebest says
Their newly exposed faces reveal bruising, black eyes and welts you could fry an egg on. Isn’t islam wonderful?
Politicianphobia says
There will probably fewer Muslim women on the streets, the Muslim Brotherhood can not afford anyone to see the bruised women, it makes people step back and think about the religion of pease, “I did not know Muslim men are allowed to beat their wives”, repeated a few times will uncover just how vile this cult is. No they can not afford to blow their cover just yet–not enough Muslim in a position of power for a total take over.
ronyvo says
This ‘human rights’ issue is out of control. This human rights business is applied to Muslims (the enemy) and not to the original citizens, who are loosing their security and values. It is gone so damn far and must be controlled.
We in the West must use our God’ given intelligence and acknowledge the fact that Islam is NOT a religion. The Koran is extremely violent and it’s teachings have NOTHING to do with ‘human rights. The Muslims are using our laws to their benefits and demand, directly or indirectly, to forbid us from using them!!
What on earth is that????
Wake up America, Canada before we become like western Europe.
Read the Koran. Read the Islamic history. One does not need, even, to read that JUST OBSERVE the daily Islamic atrocities and the crimes committed by Muslims all over. What else, you need????