Discours haineux: Simon Jolin-Barrette demande à Ottawa d’en finir avec l’exemption religieuse (Hate Propaganda: Simon Jolin-Barrette asks Ottawa to put an end to the religious exception), Raphaël Pirro, Journal de Montréal, 2024-11-29. Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette is asking his…
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France: Decriminalize Apology for Terrorism?
French Minister Denounces Push To Remove ‘Apology For Terrorism’ From Penal Code, Agence France Presse (AFP), Barron’s, 2024-11-25. France’s justice minister said on Monday that he was “resolutely opposed” to a bill aimed at removing “apology for terrorism” from the…
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Yves Gingras Recipient of Science and Secularism Prize
Yves Gingras, Prix Science et laïcité 2024, Prix de la Laïcité, Comité laïcité république, 2024-11-07. As part of its annual Secularism Awards, the Comité laïcité république (CLR) awarded Yves Gingras, Quebec historian and sociologist of science, the 2024 Science and…
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Discrimination in Childcare Centres
Trente-six CPE sélectionnent selon l’ethnie ou la religion (Thirty-six childcare centres select according to ethnicity or religion), Francis Vailles, La Presse, 2024-11-12. An article in La Presse reveals that 36 State-funded (i.e. more than 80% State-funded) childcare centres in the…
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International Competition #MockingGod
#MockingGod: Charlie Hebdo’s International competition, Charlie Hebdo, 2024-11-13. To those who are fed up with living in a society ruled by God and religion, To those who are fed up with being preached at about so-called good and evil, To…
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Vaccination Exemptions on Religious Grounds
Des fonctionnaires exemptés de vaccination contre la COVID-19 grâce à… Dieu. Certains croyaient que les vaccins contenaient des cellules de fœtus avortés. (Civil Servants Exempted From COVID-19 Vaccination because of… God. Some believed vaccines contain cells from aborted fetuses.), Marie…
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NSS warns UK Government about danger of Islamophobia Definition
‘Religion-phobia’ definitions must be avoided, NSS warns Government. NSS tells Angela Rayner adopting ‘Islamophobia’ definition will exacerbate tensions and threaten freedom to criticise religion., National Secular Society (NSS), 2024-08-13. The Government must ensure freedom to criticise religion is preserved in…
In the News: MLQ, PDF-Q & Quebec Ask for Disqualification of Justice Jamal
The Mouvement laïque québécois (MLQ), the organization Pour les droits des femmes du Québec (PDF-Q) and the Attorney General of Quebec have each written to the Supreme Court requesting that Justice Mahmud Jamal be withdrawn from the case involving Quebec…
In the News: Religious Ceremonies in the Parks and Streets of Montreal
Islamic holiday celebration in Montreal park draws ire from secularists, Joe Bongiorno, The Canadian Press, Microsoft Start, 2024-06-20. MONTREAL — Earlier this week, members of Montreal’s Muslim community gathered in a park to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday, a day…
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Renew Notwithstanding Clause to Protect Bill 21
Laïcité de l’État : Québec renouvelle l’utilisation de la clause dérogatoire (State Secularism: Quebec Renews its Use of the Notwithstanding Clause), Hugo Pilon-Larose and the Canadian Press, La Presse, 2024-02-08. The Quebec minister responsible for secularism, Jean-François Roberge, has tabled legislation…
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End Religious Hate Speech!
Le Bloc québécois redépose son « projet de loi Charkaoui » (The Bloc québécois re-tables its “Charkaoui Bill”), Boris Proulx, Le Devoir, 2024-02-05. The Bloc Québécois has tabled a second bill inspired by the incident last fall when Montreal imam Adil Charkaoui…
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Trans Surgeries Banned for Minors in Alberta
Danielle Smith unveils sweeping changes to Alberta’s student gender identity, sports and surgery policies, Michelle Bellefontaine, CBC News, 2024-01-31. Alberta will prohibit hormonal treatment, puberty blockers and gender affirming surgery for children 15 years and younger, Premier Danielle Smith announced…
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English Montreal School Board Wastes Taxpayers’ Money
Commission scolaire English-Montréal: 1,3 M$ pour contester la Loi sur la laïcité de l’État (English Montreal School Board: $1.3 million to challenge Quebec’s secularism law), Patrick Bellerose, Journal de Québec, 2024-02-01. The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has spent, to date, at…
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Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi
Iran’s Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize for her work fighting oppression of women, Thomson Reuters, CBC, 2023-10-06. Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned Iranian activist, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Friday. ‘The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to…
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Court Rejects Appeal concerning Prayer Spaces in Schools
Quebec judge denies request to appeal decision maintaining school prayer space ban, Jacob Serebrin, CTV News, 2023-07-26-court. A Muslim organization and a civil rights group seeking to suspend Quebec’s ban on prayer spaces in public schools have been denied leave…
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Municipal Funding of Opponents of Bill 21 is Illegal
Press Release of Droits collectifs Québec (DCQ) Funding of Bill 21 Opponents by the City of Toronto The Importance of Standing Tall Sherbrooke, 14th July 2023 – Droits collectifs Québec (DCQ or Collective Rights Quebec) and its partners are delighted…
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UN Human Rights Council Resolution Against Burning the Quran
UN rights body votes in favour of banning Quran burnings, National Secular Society (UK), 2023-07-12. Members of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) today voted in favour of a resolution for the “deliberately and publicly” burning of the Quran or…
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Ottawa Must Stop Funding the NCCM
Ottawa doit cesser de financer le Conseil national des musulmans canadiens (Ottawa Must Stop Funding the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM)), Collective, Journal de Montréal, 2023-04-17. The NCCM has every right to criticize the Quebec government or to oppose…
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Secular Ontario Supports Bill 21
We have learned from the secretary of Secular Ontario that the Board of that organization has adopted a resolution in support of Quebec Bill 21. “Be it resolved that Secular Ontario supports the secular (laicite) legislation of the Quebec National…
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The Trudeauisation of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bill Privileges Muslims in State Government, Dexter Van Zile, Focus on Western Islamism, 2023-03-15. The Massachusetts state legislature is considering a bill that would promote and privilege the participation of Muslims in state politics.[…] The bill is “an unprecedented…
Tagged with: islam, Islamism, Massachusetts, Muslims, religion_State_separation, religious_privilege, secularism, USA
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Quebec National Assembly Strikes Back. Bravo!
Les députés québécois unanimes: pas plus de racisme au Québec qu’ailleurs (Quebec MNAs Unanimous: Quebec No More Racist than Elsewhere), Geneviève Lajoie, Journal de Québec, 2023-03-15. Members of all political parties in the National Assembly are unanimous: there is no…
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Quebec Group and Torontonian Sue Toronto to Stop Misuse of Funds to Oppose Bill 21
Toronto man sues City Hall over $100k donation to Quebec Bill 21 challenge, Andrew Lawton, True North, 2022-03-24. A Toronto man has filed a lawsuit against the City of Toronto to scrap its $100,000 payment to a legal fund fighting…
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France: Death Threats for a Report on Islamism
Reportage de “Zone Interdite” à Roubaix : menacé de mort, un militant associatif dénonce la montée de l’intégrisme islamiste dans la ville (Report by “Zone Interdite” in Roubaix: threatened with death, an association activist denounces the rise of Islamist fundamentalism in…
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Masih Alinejad Opposes Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Bill
Why I’m opposed to Ilhan Omar’s bill against Islamophobia, Masih Alinejad, Washington Post, 2022-01-25. The legislation does not provide a clear definition of Islamophobia,… Is criticism of the Taliban a form of Islamophobia? The bill H.R.5665 – Combating International Islamophobia…
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Medical Journal Censors Criticism of Veil
Timeline of Events: 2021-11-08: CMAJ shows on its cover an image of a young girl wearing a hijab, prompting protests on social media, including criticism from Yasmine Mohammed, author of “UNVEILED: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam”. 2021-12-20: CMAJ publishes…
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