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Why can’t women just dress how they want ffs

It’s not just misogyny, it’s racism and islamophobia, don’t leave those out

I can see how this could be interpreted as Islamophobia.  But the blurb above does not tell the whole story.  The whole story is that Quebec has a law that NO religious symbols can be worn or displayed in any government work-place.  So this is a policy that treats all equally - religious and non-religious alike - and separates church and state so that there is no endorsement of any religion.  Some people think that this infringes on religious liberty, but in fact, people can still be religious if they want - they just can’t display it as a representative of the government.  Way to go Quebec!

I’m sorry that’s literally the definition of Islamophobia, like wearing a head covering is a major part of her religion. it hurts no one and has been around for hundreds of years. Allowing a government worker to wear something which is apart of their faith isn’t endorsing shit other than personal freedom. And I fucking bet you the law isn’t enforced on Christian’s who wear cross necklaces but is enforced on religions like Sikhism and Islam. Like I’m sorry to tell you but this does infringe on people’s religious rights and should not exist in the first place. Overall you are really misguided but then again you have the url noreligionisgood and probably don’t go out of your way to educate yourself on the religions you dunk on

Perhaps banning people for wearing items relating to their faith is… bad? Perhaps pretending like it’s being applied “equally” when everyone knows they are targeting specific head coverings worn by people of specific Faith’s and cultures is…. islamophobic?

It’s literally a law that only affects non-christians. There are schools and stuff that have giant crosses, there is LITERALLY a giant cross on Mt. Royale, but it’s not considered religious by the government bc it’s “part of quebec’s history.” Don’t fucking praise the quebec government its horribly Islamophobic attitude.

How do people not grasp that laws like Quebec’s directly target someone whose faith includes wearing a hijab or a yarmulke or a dastar, while leaving Christians completely unaffected? A Christian wearing a cross necklace is not an element of their worship or beliefs, and a necklace can be worn beneath clothing.

Heads up: if a law applies to everyone, but it’s very clear that the law requires CERTAIN groups to sacrifice more than, say, the dominant group? That law is discriminatory. Y'all remember the argument of “gay men and lesbian women have the right to marry someone of the opposite binary gender, so laws specifying marriage as between one man and one woman aren’t discrimination! They apply to straight AND gay people equally!”? You understood then how it was wrong and discriminatory to have a law that didn’t affect the majority group but directly affected a minority group.

what makes them think they have the right

they also voted that associations organizing "non-mixed" meetings (aka poc meetings) could be dismantled <3

This is weird. So weird. They're not thinking they're being fascists, they think people WHO ARE supporting hijabi women or organizing "non-mixed" meetings are the fascists here. Not even damn communists or "islamolefists" (as the right says here now), literally just fascists. Oppressed minorities are fascists now

Next month headline : Muslim mothers are egoistic and communautarist because they don’t participate in school life.

Also, please not that it’s not only the hijab that is forbidden, but any form of veiling. They’re forbiding muslim women to cover their head.

For the international audience reading this, the bill about forbidding minors from wearing hijabs/kippas/etc won't pass, the Constitutional Council will sigh and throw it away because it's anticonstitutionnal, but the law passing isn't the point here. The point is the racism.

I think you're wrong about them thinking antiracists are the real racists. These are LR: being racists is not a "mistake". It's their goal. At this point it's getting pretty clear that LR wants Muslims either to assimilate completely or to have no choice but leave France. (the LR Minister of Interior published a book in February vaunting Napoleon's policies about Jews, which were extremely restrictive and erased a number of the improvements the Revolution gave French Jews as far as equal treatment under the law etc went: Napoleon explained in his letters that his goal was to "crush the particularity if Jewish blood" and was tempted to forbid marriages between Jews, though that was too much even for his lawmakers at the time and wasn't passed. The goal was assimilation. The current government is following that example, which they consider, quote, "a policy of integration before its time")

To make it extremely clear this is about racism and not about any religious concerns, in case the rancid violation of the principle of laicity the previous paragraphs describe didn't make it clear, they're also trying to pass a bill forbidding foreign flags from entering town halls when weddings are celebrated. (They mean Algerian/Moroccan/Tunisian flags. No-one's gonna care about American flags.)

The bill allowing associations and "groups of fact" (ie groups without a legal existence, informal groups), now, is going to be a real problem.

Also: while it's not the MAIN issue here, the fact that the association they're going after is the major student union is NOT a mistake. Our Ministers of Education and Higher Education are peddling the "teachers/universities/researchers are islamoleftists" bullshit like some bad Maccarthysm remake, and the government is trying to privatize education and higher education. (In the words of our president: there's "mad bucks" to be made in privatizing the public sector)

It's worded in a way that means you COULD hold non-mixed reunions the way they've been held until now (by making "shared experience of racism" the factor, and not "race or skin color") - and I choose to believe this is the reason why otherwise good antiracist Senators such as Esther Benbassa didn't vote against it; she abstained - but it WILL be a bitch and a half to defend in court. Now, it that DOES pass, some intrepid association might try to get after the LR Senators, for instances, or other entirely-white-in-fact-but-not-in-writing institution.

The actual worst part is that the public debate is three right-wing parties going more and more far-right with every week that passes, a super unpopular and not good with race issues left-wing leader, that our presidential elections are in 13 months, and that it's going to get worse before it gets better.

there's a lot of worried reblogging about this topic, so the reblog above me has clarification in English. And petitions, especially those in English, will not have any effect in this case.

Also saw this in a different post:

https://factcheck.afp.com/france-did-not-ban-halal-slaughter-poultry

But haven't seen anything else regarding the requirement of sale of pork and alcohol?

what makes them think they have the right

they also voted that associations organizing "non-mixed" meetings (aka poc meetings) could be dismantled <3

This is weird. So weird. They're not thinking they're being fascists, they think people WHO ARE supporting hijabi women or organizing "non-mixed" meetings are the fascists here. Not even damn communists or "islamolefists" (as the right says here now), literally just fascists. Oppressed minorities are fascists now

Next month headline : Muslim mothers are egoistic and communautarist because they don’t participate in school life.

Also, please not that it’s not only the hijab that is forbidden, but any form of veiling. They’re forbiding muslim women to cover their head.

So the Quebec religious neutrality bill which bans facial coverings like the niqab for public services will also make it illegal to wear sunglasses on a bus.

WTF Quebec?

Uhm. They understand that sunglasses are often used by people with disabilities and chronic illness (I myself am prone to migraines and light sensitivity) and that sunglasses can also be prescription. And. That forcing employees to risk damage to their sight is literally a violation of employment standards. This is all such a pathetic excuse to seem like they’re not targeting Muslim women. They are and banning sunglasses is a pathetic and ignorant attempt at shifting focus. Because it’s potentially also physically harmful/damaging.

It also looks like muslim women who cover their face will also no longer be allowed to attend university:

“In scary middle-eastern countries the the muslims regulate how women dress and ban them from getting an education. Good thing us Westerners aren’t like that.”

This is the easiest way to piss a conservative off though… Like ask for a specific source and they FLIP

This amazing video is well worth taking a moment to watch, via NBC News.

“You May Know Me from Such Roles as Terrorist #4″, Jon Ronson (via di-a-man-te)

Headlines fit expectations.

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