There are many, many other jobs where you can openly display your religions and no-one will give a shit.
So a government job prevents you from doing so. Boo hoo. Find a different job, then. Religion isn’t a “disability” that needs protecting other than demonstrating a wholesale lack of effective bullshit detection skills.
Oh man, I hope I was wrong about this whole bill being an attack on Muslims and that these banned symbols represent a diversity of religions!
Mariem Gharnougui was an educator at a school-run daycare in the Laurentians, but she lost her job in February after refusing to remove her hijab.
Awww shucks. Better luck next time…
And over a fucking head scarf? I hope they keep this energy in the winter when almost everyone has a head covering. Oh you’re cold and don’t have a hood or cap? Better not wrap any clothes around your head!
I think its secretly the blatant misogyny people dislike, but they are afraid of the virtuous people swooping in to say its the womens choice to cover their entire body in cloth.
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They say it is a disaster for schools, but normalizing religious influence in schools would be even more disastrous.
Any school that wants to display religious symbols must also display the Flying Spaghetti Monster as prominently and properly explain it without bias when students inquire.
Ramen.
It’s already fairly neutered from what I seen.
Yes, we’ve never had any kind of religious representation in schools like crucifixes and rosaries or religious figures teaching classes…🙄
Those should go too.
Those are constitutionally mandated, but if you want to back an amendment, I’m down.
Those also shouldn’t happen.
I’m not a fan of religious schools either, but they’re not going away anytime soon. You want to try for a constitutional amendment to get rid of them, good luck. As long as they’re a fact of life, the least we can do is teach our kids that no one creed is particularly better or worse than any other.
I went through the quebec school system and I didn’t see a single cross or christian religious symbol in any of my schools. The closest thing was a cross in the (historic) stonework of another school I didn’t go to, but those get removed whenever they’re renovated.
I don’t disagree the bill primarily targets muslims, but it’s not like the schools here are super christian or whatever.
Never been in a Catholic school I take it? Here in Alberta we have publicly funded religious schools all over the place and access to Catholic schools are a constitutional requirement. Even in fully secular public schools, good luck taking any kind of music or performing arts without having to sing some creed’s hymns or performing a play with religious themes. I’m actually really thrilled when a school has some religious diversity and isn’t afraid to include some Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Indigenous representation in the day-to-day, because it gets so monotonous to have so much Christian representation and nothing else.
I don’t know about Quebec, but I’d rather my kids get used to the idea that no one of any creed is particularly terrible (or has a monopoly on virtue). As for head scarves, I have no more objection to Islamic women wearing them than I object to Hutterite or Mennonite women wearing them. They’re wearing a hat, not reading scriptures.The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.
I have been to a private school that was softly catholic, but I didn’t include it in my list because it’s private. Private schools aren’t affected by this law.
At least when I was in high school we had ethics and religion class, where among other things we learned about all the religions, notably, the teacher wasn’t even allowed to tell us which one they subscribed to.
The reasoning for the law is that it wouldn’t be legal for a teacher to wear a head covering if it weren’t religious, so they shouldn’t be able to even if it is.
The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.
I see your point but up to relatively recently Quebec was completely dominated by religion to a scary extent. So now people here are really afraid of religion regaining a place of power in society and seeing Muslim people arriving and being much more visibly religious than other groups is reminding people of that.
