Canada’s largest Muslim organisation is outraged over a bill introduced by the Quebec government that would ban headscarves for school support staff and students.

“In Quebec, we made the decision that state and the religion are separate,” said Education Minister Bernard Drainville, CBC News reported. “And today, we say the public schools are separate from religion.”

But the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), who are challenging in the Supreme Court the original bill that forbids religious symbols being worn by teachers, say the new bill is another infringement on their rights and unfairly targets hijab-wearing Muslims.

“This renewed attack on the fundamental rights of our community is just one of several recent actions taken by this historically unpopular government to bolster their poll numbers by attacking the rights of Muslim Canadians,” the NCCM said in a social media post.

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Wrapping women up is the tool of oppression, so good for Canada.

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Personally, I think all religions can go fuck themselfes and I also think that you are right, wrapping up women is a tool of oppression.

But this is exactly the same: Forcing women what (not) to wear. This is bad for those who want to wrap themselfes up and this is bad for those who get problems with their shitty families who don’t want them to go to such places. So fuck that shit, too.

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Women can make that decision for themselves, individually, based on what they are comfortable with.

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Ah yes, because muslim family units are beacons of freedom, self-expression and feminism. No threats of shunning or violence, ever.

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How this going to fix things the women may just start wearing it outside of schools?

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Trying to moral high ground about violence in 2025

https://youtu.be/16QCQU-jp4Q

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These can’t. Ask their owner, i mean dad.

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Just like the women in Iran/Afghanistan. They can do whatever they want there. Put on a bikini, shorts etc. Totally free to do what their husbands tell them to. Maybe I’ll send my two daughters.

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Or if they want to get dragged back to a country where they can be stoned to death.

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What does this even mean? A woman whose family is going to bring her back to their native country for punishment often does so because she won’t wear a covering, which this law will support by forcing women not to cover. A woman who does wear a covering (forced or otherwise) probably won’t be, so your argument doesn’t even make sense.

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Bombed to death by American planes you mean?

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You are right all women should be forced to go to school naked.

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Despite all your raging comments in this thread, I still don’t know what your stance is. The weak straw man argument isn’t helping.

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Preventing people from practicing their religion is obviously bad. Especially when there is no justification to do so.

This is akin to Uyghur “reeducation camps” and I am not being hyperbolic. But apparently it is only bad when China does it.

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ah yes, teaching’s famous “second paycheck”

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