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Scholar decries Quebec acceptance of niqab
A Muslim scholar from Canada has criticised Quebecs chief electoral officer who said that Muslim women who wear the niqab would not have to show their faces to confirm their identities at the ballot box. Dr Mahfooz Kanwar, a criminologist and professor of sociology at Mount Royal College in Calgary, as well as a director of the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), says this issue will continue to arise unless the government makes a national law once and for all. It should be against the law to hide your face in this society, period, said Kanwar, who has contacted the Calgary Police in response to the threat made against all members of the MCC. Covering the face is not required by the religion of Islam and is not mentioned not once in the Quran. That means those who do it are either being forced to do it or it is their personal choice and therefore there is no reason for the government to accommodate these personal choices, explained Kanwar. Ultimately, Kanwar believes Canadas well-meaning eagerness to be tolerant is allowing a dangerous form of intolerance to flourish and it must be stopped, according to a report in the Calgary Sun newspaper. Every time a western society changes its traditions and culture to accommodate a demand that goes counter to the dominant culture, that encourages many other people to make demands and that creates ghettos or reference groups and that is very unhealthy. Posted by: Fred 2007-03-26 |
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