Quebec’s education minister has declared prayer rooms forbidden in the province’s schools, since they are not compatible with Quebec’s official policy of secularism. Education Minister Bernard Drainville stated:
There are all kinds of ways to pray…I can’t ban prayer. I ban prayer in classrooms. Now, if someone wants to pray silently, that’s their basic right.
Muslim lobbies are now outraged, as they do not intend to accept Quebec’s secularism. Table de Concertation des Organismes Musulmans (Consultation Table of Muslim Organizations) “expressed their indignation.”
So much for “quiet” prayer and the adage “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.” The adage, however, rigidly applies in Islamic lands.
Amira Elghawaby, Trudeau’s “Islamophobia czar,” aroused fury when she stated about Quebec, due to its Bill 21 that bans the hijab (and other religious symbols) while on the job: “Unfortunately, the majority of Quebecers appear to be swayed not by the rule of law, but by anti-Muslim sentiment.”
Christianity has long been shown the door in the public school system across Canada and the US, despite its role in the foundation of both countries. If anyone was justified in making noisy protests, it would be Christians, who promote peace even in the face of insult.
“Quebec Muslim leaders ‘outraged’ over school prayer room ban,” Canadian Press, April 6, 2023:
Muslim community leaders from across Quebec are up in arms over Education Minister Bernard Drainville’s move to ban public schools from setting up prayer rooms on their premises.
In a joint press release sent Thursday evening, representatives of several mosques that are members of the Table de concertation des organismes musulmans expressed their “indignation” at the minister’s decision.
“We are also indignant that this decision is made in the middle of Ramadan, a month of blessings, fasting, meetings with all fellow citizens and prayers for Muslim citizens of Quebec,” they wrote.
The authors represent the Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec, the Islamic Association of Rimouski, the Islamic Cultural Association of the Eastern Townships, the Association of Muslims of Greater Levis, Mac-Quebec, the Socio-cultural Islamic Association Louperivoise and BelAgir-Quebec.
Their statement comes a day after Drainville announced that he will send a directive to all school service centres to ban prayer rooms in Quebec public schools.
The father of the Parti Québécois (PQ) Charter of Values, now a CAQ minister, said he had been presented with at least two cases of schools in Laval where students could gather in a room to pray, in violation, he said, of the spirit of the law on secularism.
PQ MNA for Matane-Matapédia, Pascal Bérubé, also noted that a third school, in Vaudreuil, was added to the list.
Muslim leaders said they were “shocked and surprised by the allegations” of young people praying in schools. Students they describe as “clean in their minds and dedicated in their studies and especially far from the delinquency that we know.”
“We are also outraged that the minister is attacking the young people who are the future of all of us,” they continued in the statement.
“We say to the minister that you are not offering us the path of dialogue, but you are pushing us to take the path of law that the two Canadian and Quebec Charters of Rights and Freedoms recognize, to fight against this decision,” the authors add…….
somehistory says
Whining, lying, threats and then come the riots, murders and insurrection (the real one).
They want “prayer rooms,” but “Muslim leaders said they were “shocked and surprised by the allegations” of young people praying in schools”
What do they expect them to do in the “prayer rooms”? The Education minister should want to know, esp since they say these ones are the “future of all of us.”
I, for one, hope he sticks to his guns, even though they are threatening him.
mozlums push, demand, push and demand. He needs to stand strong. That would set a precedent in these times of bending over for them to have their way.
Keith O says
What should they be doing in prayer rooms??
Building bombs, learning jihad techniques, all the fun stuff of islam.
Personally, I think that if they want a room suited to islamic prayers, they can always use a toilet.
PRCS says
What they really want is prayer rooms in public schools that they can–sooner rather than later–make inhospitable to kafir Canadians.
As few students of other faiths need will use those rooms, as they don’t need to, a takeover wouldn’t take very long.
Kenneth Johnson says
Muslems come to Quebac, want to change the rules, as usual,. Why cant they accept that they are in a Catholic couontry, gracias tol the tax payers and proceed with making a life in their new country?? Oh No, that’s asking too muchk The new couingtry must chanmge their cusxtoms to accomodate the Muslems¡¡¡ KEN
notoislam says
If they can ‘t let go of their filthy prayer rooms then give them the choice that they must leave for good and return to their filthy land they came from. If the women in their group want to stay ‘then let them stay peacefully.
TyAlder says
They immigrate from islamic shithole countries so they can turn their new home into an islamic shithole.
Michael McQuade says
{you can’t intimidate other people by praying silently}
Fitna says
Same pattern of invasion and conquest, a tried and tested formula they’ve used to Islamify many countries. Ofc the Jihad will come after if they don’t get their way or even if they do.
Demand, then outrage when they don’t get what they demand. This will easily work on the cowardly…it seems Quebecors see what dangerous people Muslims are and plan to beat them at their game.
Make life miserable for Muslims, they’ll go somewhere else or will learn to stfu. Frankly we should be talking to the political elites, the problem of Islam goes well beyond party lines. It will be hard to convince Lefties, but they need to be on board and not helping Islam take over…but rather to work to remove and ban it.
OLD GUY says
If he is so hot for islam and islamic practices he should have stayed in his home country. STOP the muslim/islamic migration invasion of our countries.
Ginette Provost says
Saudi Arabia do not want church, so ,osque should be forbidden…