“Quebec Premier François Legault says he doesn’t “really” believe Muslim women in the province who say they’ve been the target of Islamophobic incidents since the government passed a law making it illegal for some civil servants to wear religious symbols. Several Muslim women who wear either the hijab or niqab have told CBC News that since the legislation was tabled in March, they’ve been harassed, made the target of hateful comments, even spat on.”
Far too many Muslims have cried wolf for too long, claiming victimhood status, even where none may have existed. A notable recent incident involved a case which was publicized by the CBC where an “Islamophobia” screaming niqabi terrorized a bus driver after the driver drove by her without picking her up. Most people who use public transit have either themselves experienced or otherwise witnessed a driver zoom on by a waiting passenger that the driver may not have seen. But the zealous niqabi called up a friend, followed the driver, yelled her down and then subsequently filed “complaints with the Montreal police hate crimes unit and Quebec’s human rights commission”, prompting a union representative with Société de transport de Montréal to state: “a normal Quebecer would have waited for another bus.” CBC unfortunately linked the case to Quebec Bill 21 to restrict religious symbols in the public sector, stating: “the incident occurred as Quebec politicians are set to vote on a proposed law that restricts where religious symbols can be worn in the province”, and that “Muslim women in the province have reported being the target of an increasing number of Islamophobic incidents since it was tabled in March.”
Bill 21 passed into law and Muslim women wearing coverings continue to complain about “Islamophobia” (and “racism”). One cannot deny cases that may exist of anti-Muslim bigotry as with all bigotry, and in such cases, there have long been worthwhile programs to combat discrimination. Such programs however are now hijacked by Islamic supremacists and their socialist allies. All discrimination has become secondary to so-called “Islamophobia”.
A disadvantage of Bill 21 is that it targets all religious symbols despite the fact that Canada operates under a Constitution that enshrines religious rights and freedoms. Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, stated about the bill:
“It’s mainly driven by the hijabs, and the other religious symbols are collateral damage,” said Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies. “Clearly, what is underlying (support for Bill 21) is negative sentiment toward Islam, Muslims and hijabs. It’s not about Christian religious symbols. The historic baggage of Catholicism and its negative role in Quebec isn’t part of the identity of a lot of Quebecers, despite what we hear from a lot of thought leaders.”
“Quebec premier shrugs off charge new religious symbols law makes Muslim women more vulnerable to racism”, by Jonathan Montpetit, CBC News, June 27, 2019:
Quebec Premier François Legault says he doesn’t “really” believe Muslim women in the province who say they’ve been the target of Islamophobic incidents since the government passed a law making it illegal for some civil servants to wear religious symbols.
Several Muslim women who wear either the hijab or niqab have told CBC News that since the legislation was tabled in March, they’ve been harassed, made the target of hateful comments, even spat on.
A women’s advocacy group, Justice Femme, recorded more than 40 Islamophobic incidents around Montreal between late March and early May.
Muslim community leaders have shared stories on social media that suggest the incidents of harassment have not died down in the two weeks since the law came into effect.
Legault was asked Thursday on CBC Radio whether he believes the new law — which bars public teachers and other authority figures from wearing religious symbols — makes some Quebecers more vulnerable to racism.
“For the people dealing with this bill … they say that they have received a greater level of harassment and intimidation and even attacks since the bill passed,” the host of CBC Montreal’s Daybreak, Ainslie MacLellan, told Legault.
“Do you believe those stories — that they are actually facing these things?”
Legault responded: “Not really.”
The premier went on to describe the religious symbols law as moderate, because it applies only to a small number of civil servants: public schoolteachers, school principals, government lawyers, police officers, judges and wildlife officers are prohibited from wearing signs of their faith.
“[The law] is quite similar to what we have in Belgium, in France, in Germany,” Legault said.
He was referring to laws in Belgium that ban face-covering veils in public. A similar ban exists in France, where it is also illegal for students and teachers to wear religious symbols in state schools. Several German states have implemented their own limits on where religious symbols can be worn.
“When I hear some people saying that Quebec [is becoming] racist, does that mean Germany, France and Belgium are racist?” Legault asked….
Kilfincelt says
Good for the Premier of Quebec! He is absolutely correct.
PrayingAlbertan (@kimberALBERTA) says
I AGREE whole-heartedly!!
mortimer says
The State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, has banned women from wearing full-face veils on campus for fear of their radicalizing influence.
A list of countries that banned the face veil:
France, Netherlands, Belgium, Chad, Egypt, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Germany, China, Malaysia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/16/map-the-places-where-islamic-face-veils-are-banned/?utm_term=.a3c2bbcd64a9
KWJ says
Tajikistan too for both security and cultural reasons. Women there wear scarves tied behind their head like we’d see with farming women. I remember an official there saying it’s “not our culture.” There isn’t anything attractive about a black abaya with a niqab and ISIS guys have hidden in them. Also, in Africa there was a spate of female suicide bombers and it makes it even harder to tell if they’re wearing the device.
I wish Muslim women who where niqabs would realize that they are hindering communication with others. I really don’t like talking to people without seeing their mouth and facial expressions. It’s how we read cues and smile is positive. It creeps me out too, no less, men decided on it…Umar particularly.
Leslie Fish says
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc. can’t wear showy public symbols of their religion, then neither can the Muslims.
ntesdorf says
Now, if the bus driver had driven over her, that might be Islamophobia……We all miss buses sometimes.
mortimer says
The ‘Islamophobia’ slander is an attempt to implement Sharia blasphemy law BY OTHER MEANS.
Laurie says
shut the hell up, please. i am so sick of this sick phrase islamophobia. it is ridiculous and makes it seem that muslims are so much more special then everyone else. muslims have been insulting everyone in every capacity and yet anyone else saying negative about them, and there is lots of negative to say, is told theyhave a phobia. not true. so many more people are realizing what islam is all about and either love it because they were lied to or realize that it is a toltarian lifestyle that belittles and humiliates women and children and so much more atrocities. they lie, act like victims at every opportunity, will not follow the laws of the land and if the numbers are allowed to grow then they will attempt to institute sharia shit. not acceptable and never will be.
Anonymous says
I’ve lived in the province of Quebec 40 years and now I live in France. I know that the original French speaking Quebecers cherish freedom to the core. Their motto is “live and let live”, meaning “live your life and let others live theirs” and they really do it, conscious of the wide space and nature around and their beauty and value. Muslims assault the freedom of others by definition with their hegemonistic enterprise and I shudder at the thought of being in the province of Quebec and pass by a defiant retrograde Muslim woman thinking herself superior contemptuously. I think of the recovery programs in which one learns to stop whining about being sorry for themselves. Muslims in Western countries have access to things they could not even dream of in their homeland and they whine constantly. They are incredibly despicable to the last bit to any normal human being. Patriotic Quebecers probably cannot stand them. The allergy Quebecers feel towards Muslims is probably total.
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MarkMulakussh says
Muslims despise everyone who is not a muslim of their particular denomination.
They live in the west for two reasons:
-Convenient living, preferably by leeching off of the nice systems we have here.
-Convert the whole nations to Islam basically through fast paced breeding, starting fights and civil wars when their population reaches 25% as historically demonstrated; killing off the said civilization.
There is full historical precedence to all this: Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, most of North Africa.
I am very sad that this virus of Islam has reached my country and the day of destruction is not far off.
The term ‘Islamophobia’ was coined to thwart any criticism of Islam or muslim activity. Our politicians are pussies.
strats4ever says
” I know that the original French speaking Quebecers cherish freedom to the core. Their motto is “live and let live”, meaning “live your life and let others live theirs” and they really do it”
I’ve been living in Quebec for over 60 years and I’m calling BS on that statement – maybe you missed the politically correct cleansing of English Canadians from the province – over 800,000 due to the racist language laws.
dranem50260 says
Our motto is written on every vehicle license plates: “Je me souviens”. In English, “I remember”. It should be interpreted as follows: “the past is the guarantor of the future”.
The 800,000 anglos that moved out to the ROC, move out because they did not accept the French speaking taking their right place as a majority. Too bad they could not adapt or better yet assimilate to the majority.
strats4ever says
““Je me souviens”” comes from a Eugène-Étienne Taché, architect of Quebec’s Parliament Building. Taché’s father, Étienne-Paschal Taché, had been a premier of the Province of Canada, a regional Patriote leader at the time of the 1837 rebellions and a Father of Confederation.
Here’s his other famous saying:
“Née dans les lis, je grandis dans les roses” (Born in the lilies, I grow in the roses)
The second part of your statement refers to using the tyranny of the majority to override the rights of a minority. Good the the anglo majority of Canada doesn’t sink to the same level.
dranem50260 says
As a French Quebecer, I can not be on the side of those who saw in language law 101 a great impetus for reconquest and, at the same time, be on the side of those who saw the end of their privileges, to the point where they were many to exile themselves to anglophone Canada because they could not tolerate the idea of living in a society of French language and culture.
It’s the return to evidence. In terms of identity, the English-speaking historic minority feels part of English Canada and not of French Quebec.
We can not blame the English minority. We must respect its rights, and we do it admirably. The English-speaking community of Quebec is the most cherished minority on the planet, and it is much better treated than Francophone communities in English Canada.
Renouncing to our own history and rights to dissolve in Canadian multiculturalism would be a collective cultural suicide. It will not happen because a nation (and we are a nation!) that becomes alien to their history and culture and is no longer able to approach it from its own experience becomes alien to its own identity; it plans its disappearance.
gravenimage says
Not to make light of these issues, but the real concern is not whether Canadians wind up speaking English or French, but whether they are eventually overtaken by invading Arabic-speaking Muslims.
Yolande says
Poor Quebec citizens beware of lies, in order to reach theirs ends Muslim use so many ruses ,dont believe all their claims.
Some are very kind and polite and disagree such a behavior, but they don’t interfere, in the Coran they must support each other whatever.
Take care and be smarter .
Johane says
I feel like a lot of people in Canada and here in Quebec are asleep. I hope I am wrong.
Ivanawfulitch says
Laurie, you are right on. I admire your Premire for the position he is taking. He is bold enough to speak the truth. I have read so many accounts of lying by Muslims, and then screaming Islamophobia at anyone who questions their lie. Deception is their first and primary tool, used both defensively and offensively. Glad to see both you and the Premier are perspicacious. God bless you.
Michael Garant says
For once we have a Prime minister instead of a prime sinister. He holds his ground and stands firmly on his feet in defense of our society. The law is a first step and very mild one at that. It only applies to civil servants in position of authority like police, judges, and teachers from grade school to and including high school, higher education and private schools are exempt…….so muslims or other religious zealots can work for the government in all other spheres that are not in a position of authority or in private schools.
We know muslims are experts at taqqyia, so unless they have proof , we don’t believe them, and even then, history has shown that they do not hesitate to create a fictitious problem to make themselves into victims.
The other aspect of the law demands that services be delivered and received free of face coverings…..so if you want to board a bus, show your face, that’s it and that’s all.
We got rid of religion in our schools in the 60’s, no way we want a return of even more retrograde religions.
gravenimage says
Legault is not Canada’s Prime Minister–that would be the appalling Islamophilic Justin Trudeau. But he is Quebec’s Primier–and that is a good thing.
CRUSADER says
Not only “cried wolf” but also “the sky is falling” !!
People get sick and fatigued of hearing from Chicken Littles.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Thank you for your report, Christine Douglass-Williams. You say, ” female coverings are a violation of democratic rights and freedoms under the law [in Quebec].” Huh? Please cite the relevant provisions of Quebec law. Holy Doukhobor! Did you really mean to say that female non-nakedness is illegal in Quebec?
CRUSADER says
Proof is always in the pudding!
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“Political speeches are like steer horns.
A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”
~ Alfred E Neuman
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from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”
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somehistory says
I like that! Too true!!
Angemon says
Sounds like an unimpeachable source…
gravenimage says
Canada: Quebec premier “shrugs off” complaints that new anti-religious symbols law encourages ‘Islamophobia’
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Good for Quebec Premier François Legault!
somehistory says
I have to agree with him in that they sound fabricated. Who gathers the “stores” and compiles them and counts them? moslims who want islam to reign over everyone else.
Just get in the way-back machine and look at all of the **incidents** moslims claim to have happened.
In America, all of these big bad men, wearing ball caps and driving pickup trucks…men in the South who are very courteous to women, even women who are behaving badly…see a moslim with her scarf and go **pulling it off** and telling the woman to **go back** to where she came from.
Or, men in ball caps and driving pickup trucks chase these scarf-wearers down the highways and yell at them and threaten them and accost them in grocery stores or restaurants.
But, no non moslim witnesses come forward to support the charges. Then, lo and behold, the scarf wearing female is found out to be LYING.
Why is it not one of these big, ball cap wearing men are found to be telling moslim men to take off their dirty skirts and go back where they came from? For the simple reason, most people who realize what islam is all about know they can’t allow themselves to behave as moslims behave when they see something they don’t like. And unlike moslims, people realize that others have the same legal rights to exercise freedom of speech…which includes a whole heck of a lot of things.
But covering the face in public is an offense against everyone else who must deal with them face to face or depend on the person behind the covering to behave in a legal manner. A person who “hides what they are” cannot, and should not, be trusted.
Giacomo Latta says
During a protest by Muslims against Bill 21 proposed by Legault, the MSM made the mistake of asking a Muslima for her opinion. She stated that the new law would favourize Québécois and discriminate against Muslims. What? But I thought these people were seeking to escape their self-created hellholes to enjoy life as new Québécois. Why are we importing people who have no desire to become Canadian-law-abiding citizens but a strong desire to create a new hellhole in Canada?
dranem50260 says
All the muslims present at that Bill 21 protest were radicalized muslims. They came here to conquer (hijrah) our land and make it an islam land. The only law they will abide by is the shariah.
Johane says
Exactly. And the question is : if it’s so wonderful were you come from, why did you come here?
Rose Keeling says
It is high time that all Western countries fully reject this word “Islamophobia,” this is a made-up word by muslims to shut down all others that disagree with their ideology and/or beliefs. Proven once again they are not in our countries to embrace freedoms and to live as one people, one human race, but to change all of our countries into the laws and culture of middle east and nothing more….
– Man-up people and stop this insanity…. if they love and miss the middle east culture etc so much then they ALL need to go back to where they truly fit and belong…. then everyone’s happy…. Enough of this one-sided agenda of theirs to take over our land, law systems, culture and countries, period.
Giacomo Latta says
It is impossible for islamophobia to exist. A phobia is an irrational fear. A religion whose bible obligates the follower to slash Jewish throats, Christian throats, beat wives, etc. is one to be rationally feared.
Geof Barrington says
I wish that these allegations of islamphobia were true . That would mean that the Quebecois were reacting correctly to islam . Everybody should start to hate these hateful people . They deserve it very much
dranem50260 says
Geof, you have to know that French Québec have been under the yoke of the Catholic religion for many centuries. We got rid of it starting 1960, during, what was called, our Révolution tranquille” (Quiet Revolution). We have worked to seperate religion and the state since then. Law 21 is another major step in that direction.
There is no way that we will accept the rulings of another religion. Islam is a religion of hatred and its political system, the shariah, are unacceptable to any civilize country.
Needless to say I am an islammophobe and will remai so until the muslims have reformed their so-called religion.