The Video seems to cover a Pakistani Ahmadi-Muslim Family in the Netherlands.
France’s face veil ban is just the latest controversial law aimed at assimilating new immigrants in Europe. The Netherlands now requires Dutch fluency to become a citizen
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Jaffary, the Concordia professor asserted that veil should remain as a free choice for Muslim women in Quebec.
CAIRO – Showing solidarity to the Muslim minority, two renowned Montreal professors have donned hijab in a protest against the proposed ban on religious symbols in the Parti Québécois’ secular charter.
“I wear it as a kind of sign of solidarity,” Concordia University history professor Nora Jaffary told CBC on Monday, November 25.
Recently, Quebec has been the home of religious debates since the proposal of the controversial Parti Québécois charter which claims protecting state secularism by prohibiting public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols in workplaces such as schools, hospitals and day cares.
The ban would affect everyone from government workers and doctors to teachers and day care workers.
Rejecting the charter, Jaffary as well as McGill University political science professor Catherine Lu decided to don veil in protest.
While Jaffary is still wearing the veil to campus, Lu wore the veil for a week in September to stir discussion in her classroom.
The Concordia professor asserted that veil should remain as a free choice for Muslim women in Quebec.
She added that the proposed ban would target a group of minorities in Quebec, singling out Muslim women as a main victim of the charter.
Therefore, Jaffary decided to wear the veil to show her support, calling on more people to don veil to add more weight to the protest.
“If many people are wearing religious signs, it’s impossible to tell who’s wearing them for what reason and so it sort of muddies the waters.”
Muslims make around 2.8 percent of Canada’s 32.8 million population, and Islam is the number one non-Christian faith in the north American country.
Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one’s affiliations.
A survey has showed the overwhelming majority of Muslims are proud to be Canadian.
In a recent poll, most for the Quebeckers were found not concerned about religious accommodations.
Though it has the second largest Muslim population in Canada, the east-central province of Quebec is one of the most Islamophobic provinces in the country, where Muslims are facing different kinds of discrimination and racism.
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http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
The ban on Hijab is the beginning of other things to be imposed. If they are really serious about the ban then the Catholic nuns should also not be allowed to wear the habit.
I wonder if there are records in history the thoughts and fears of the Native American just before they were slaughtered by cross bearing foreigners.
I love to live in North America for its freedom of religion on which was formed the Union.
Let people eat!
This is a good direction that they are heading in. immigrants come and live off of the welfare of the government. most make up excuses that they can’t learn the language, but the word can’t does not exist. they are lazy and DON’T want to learn, using any excuse possible. and if you don’t speak the language, then you don’t work, so why are you draining the people’s resources of that land? this is not about tolerance, this is about the Netherlands just protecting its native people from those immigrants that come and don’t give back.
Saw this a while back. I do agree with the mother’s point of view that she might be able to survive in the country without learning a new language. And, yes that her daughter or other kids should learn the language to be a part of the community. I believe, just like the US, Netherlands is asking for a rudimentary understanding of the language not a complete mastery.
But, I sincerely agree with all countries having this law, they see a distinct division of their country’s peoples because of this. Many Ahmadis and other refugees have come to UK from Germany to avoid learning German Language. And of course, when we come out of the country we blame the Germans for forcing us to learn something and do not realize that they have started this after years of immigrants creating their own silos and not assimilating with the country’s population.
We fail to see the point of productivity and assimilation in the country. Anyone disagreeing with me on this point, please take a trip down to an Indian store or a Chinese or Vietnamese store and have a two line conversation, the frustration you get makes your resolve very strong never to return to that store or area again.