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| Charter could discourage French-speaking Muslim immigration to Quebec |
| 2013-11-11 |
| Quebec's policy of favoring French-speaking immigrants has been like a welcome mat to thousands of francophone Muslims from countries like Morocco, Algeria and Lebanon who now call Montreal home. But some believe the Charter of Quebec Values tabled in the National Assembly last week will do just the opposite; its ban on the wearing of religious symbols by public sector workers discouraging not only Muslim immigrants, but others who will see it as a sign of intolerance toward minorities or of an unstable social climate. Jean-François Lisée, the minister in charge of the Montreal region, said he believes the charter will eventually prove an asset to Quebec's immigration program, attracting "moderate" members of various religions who want to live in a secular state. He said, "Immigrants who have been coming here for the past several years have to sign a declaration in which it is written that Quebec is a secular state. "I think there are a lot of people from Maghreb and Lebanon and elsewhere who choose Quebec because it is a secular society. If we send a message that here in Quebec we take secularism seriously, we will have moderate Muslims, moderate Christians, and moderate Sikhs, who say 'I like my religion a lot at home, but I like a secular state,' and Quebec is a progressive state that sends that message." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #13 "Help, help, I'm being oppressed! See the violence inherent in the system! Yadda yadda yadda..." |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-11-11 17:12 |
| #12 Thats a good one Snowy. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-11-11 17:11 |
| #11 Too bad he's not even in Sinktrap. I sometimes find it interesting. Must have been a complete waste of time. At least Aris was intelligent. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2013-11-11 15:48 |
| #10 When the only God you have is Stalin, all the humans start to look like Hitler. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-11-11 14:46 |
| #9 If we're happy with your fucking lies, to you it's proof they're true. If we're unhappy, to you it's proof they're true. You've never brought anything new, just schoolyard taunts. Oh well. As they say, in the future everyone will be Hitler for fifteen minutes. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-11-11 14:45 |
| #8 I'm sorry you didn't realize that Rantburg is private property. And here you are, defecating all over it as if you own it and crying "censorship" as if you had a right to. Yes, that's right - private property. It's not government owned, like most of Canada. No tax dollars used to build and maintain this. Just Fred's money, donations, and volunteer labor. It's private property, in case you didn't read it the first two times. It's really not fun doing this. Because, aside from your one "Russia in WWII" remark, you're really not intelligent enough to defend your positions. And we've had, and have, some quite intelligent opposition here over the years. Most sites now have a policy up front regarding 'trolling' or posting even remotely political commentary. Democratic Underground would've deleted and blocked their version of "troll." Same with the Kos site. Rantburg doesn't. So we'll keep doing this, and end up having to ban you. It's rather sad and stupid. |
| Posted by: Jerkface Killa 2013-11-11 14:39 |
| #7 Uh oh. Headline hit a bit close to home, cousin not going to make the wedding date? Try Haiti, they speak French. Or the Heinzs', I don't care. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-11-11 13:07 |
| #6 None of us here are socialist unlike Adolph. Fascism is described as "everything is the business of the state". If that sounds more like the Tea party than the democratic party then you're more stupid than can be imagined. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-11-11 12:42 |
| #5 Do we have to put up with this Godwenite ? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-11-11 12:06 |
| #4 Uh, uh, uh. Bad Canadian troll. One would think that, being an enlightened Canadian leftist, you would know better to engage in ethnic slurring, plus a repeated violation of Godwin's Law. You lose. |
| Posted by: Jerkface Killa 2013-11-11 11:45 |
| #3 Funny that this fascist speaks out of two sides of his pie-hole...by 'secular' he means a Catholic state as the crucifix is still prominently hung in his fascist National Assembly and by 'moderate' he means lilly-white and francophone. So wanting a French-speaking and white immigrant population makes him fascist? Wouldn't that make most governments around the world fascist? How many countries actively make a point of encouraging the large-scale immigration of people who neither speak their language nor look like them? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2013-11-11 10:55 |
| #2 "Jean-François Lisée, the minister in charge of the Montreal region, said he believes the charter will eventually prove an asset to Quebec's immigration program, attracting "moderate" members of various religions who want to live in a secular state" Funny that this fascist speaks out of two sides of his pie-hole...by 'secular' he means a Catholic state as the crucifix is still prominently hung in his fascist National Assembly and by 'moderate' he means lilly-white and francophone. |
| Posted by: Jerkface Killa 2013-11-11 09:57 |
| #1 Maybe they will leave? |
| Posted by: tipover 2013-11-11 00:22 |