A challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21, will not be heard. The law bars some public sector employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace. Most prominently featured in the media and religious rights and freedoms debate has unsurprisingly been Muslim women’s right to wear their veils. Last year, Quebec Premier François Legault “shrugged […]
Quebec: Restaurant tells family their wine will be taken away because Sharia-adherent Muslims are coming in
The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. “Four bottles of wine,” translated from “Quatre bouteilles de vin,” by Patrick Lagacé, La Presse, February 9, 2020 (thanks to Gates of Vienna): It […]
Montreal: Muslims vandalize plaque for victims of mass shooting by son of Muslim migrant, worst in Canadian history
“Four men have been arrested after a memorial plaque was commemorating the École Politechnique massacre was vandalized.” These are the names of the four men: Ahmed Sido, Muhammed Nanaa, Abduallah Al-Mosuli, and Adnan Al Noumayri. According to a CTV report on December 6 marking the thirtieth anniversary of the “worst mass shooting in Canadian history,” […]
Canada: Muslim teen forced to wear hijab, marry much older man
“A Quebec youth court judge has removed a 16-year-old girl in Victoriaville from her family after she was forced into a marriage with an older man who insisted she wear a hijab, rifled through her cellphone and controlled who she could see. The girl was so afraid in the weeks before the ceremony was to […]
Quebec: Young non-Muslims, mostly women, forgo pork, observe Ramadan in solidarity with Muslims
“They see Islam as a way to return to the family model of their grandparents, but being more valued than their grandmothers, because, in Islam, the role of mother and wife is sacred and recognized by God.” Sure. However, “possible social pressure to conform to Islamic norms as an explanation for the trend does not […]
Leader of new People’s Party of Canada says his party is the only one willing to discuss the “Islamist menace”
People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier, along with PPC candidates and supporters, attended the party’s first national conference in Gatineau, Quebec on Sunday. A little background: the PPC was launched in September of last year after Bernier resigned from Canada’s official opposition Conservative Party. Bernier is also a former cabinet minister with the […]
Quebec: Green Party candidate forced to resign for criticizing mosque leader
Luc Saint-Hilaire wrote: “It would be a good moment for the president of ‘the Islamic Association’ to condemn the repugnant actions of this ‘Mohamed’ who made his wife a human torch in front of her kids… but no! It’s silence…” No one should be blamed for the actions of other people, but given that Islam […]
Quebec: Muslim politician who claimed Notre Dame fire was wrath of Allah apologizes and plays the victim
Eve Torres, who claimed that the Notre Dame fire was Allah’s wrath over France’s burqa ban, is busy now making a travesty of her apology by claiming victim status: “Many hateful messages targeted the former QS candidate after her comment. ‘It did not stop. People had never seen so much backlash,’ she indicated, adding that […]
Quebec: Muslim pol who called Notre Dame fire “wrath of Allah” worked for CAIR-Canada
Yesterday Jihad Watch reported about the Quebec Solidaire politician Eve Torres, who wrote of the Notre Dame fire that Allah had caused it because of France’s burqa ban, claiming that the ban had stirred up the wrath of Allah, and “here is the result!” She also made a veiled threat: “If I were (Quebec Premier […]
Canada: Muslim politician says Notre Dame fire was divine retribution, firefighters should sleep in local church
Her quip about the firefighters was not a direct threat of violence against the church, although her remarks can certainly be seen as tolerating and even approving of such violence if it occurred. She was saying that Allah might strike the church in Quebec, after saying that he struck the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris […]