Despite the fact that the vast majority of Quebec citizens are Catholic, the left wing Montreal City Council, in its infinite wisdom, decided, not only to remove the long standing Christian symbol from the Quebec National Assembly Hall in its recent renovation, it replaced it with a mural that features a Muslim women wearing an Islamic hijab.
Western Standard (h/t Jake R) Five years after Montreal city hall removed a crucifix, it has reopened an image of a woman with a hijab, prompting criticism from some, and support from others.
It is ironic that the atheistic political left, who have long waged war against Judeo-Christian symbols in public spaces, in the name of the separation of church and state, now have absolutely no objection to the creeping Islamization of public spaces, all over the Western world. This glaring hypocrisy is due to the fact that the political left was never truly motivated by a disdain for religion, but rather Judeo-Christian mores, Western Civilization, and White people.
Visitors to city call now encounter the message “Bienvenue à L’Hotel de Ville de Montréal“ in an image two metres high. The picture includes a sketch of a young man wearing a hoodie and ballcap, a woman wearing a hijab, and a male senior citizen.
City hall opened to the general public in June for the first time since it was closed for restoration and renovations in 2019. Back then, Mayor Valerie Plante said the crucifix that had adorned the location would be removed to “establish the secular nature of the city council.” A crucifix was also removed from the National Assembly in Quebec City.
In June 2019, the State Secularism Act Bill 21 barred public servants from wearing religious symbols, including turbans, hijabs, and kippahs while working and said people who received government services had to have their face uncovered while doing so. Section 33 of the Charter was invoked to allow for this restriction on religious freedoms.
Daniel Baril, President of the Quebec Secular Movement, called for the mural to be removed “immediately” in an open letter posted to Tolerance.ce, saying its presence was “astonishing” and “a surprise.” “The Plante administration has therefore switched from the crucifix to the hijab, thus denying its desire to ensure the secularity of the place,” he wrote.
“The presence of this veiled woman, representing the female population of Montreal, goes against the Montreal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities, which states that ‘in order to promote the participation of citizens in the affairs of the City, the City of Montreal undertakes to […] support equality between women and men’ (Article 16, g). How can liberal Muslims and non-Muslims feel supported, included and welcome by such a poster?”
Baril said the “Islamic veil is a symbol of profound inequality between the sexes” and defies Bill 21’s requirements that municipalities have “religious neutrality in fact and appearance.”
Columnist Sophie Durocher said she expected better from a $211 million renovation. Valerie Plante is making fun of us! Durocher wrote in Le Journal De Montreal.
“The one and only representation of a citizen of Montreal who has favor in the eyes of the Plante administration is the one who wears an ostentatious religious symbol?” asked Durocher. “The crucifix is taken out through the back door, but the veil is brought in through the front door,” she commented.
If we’re going to be promoting so-called “religious diversity”, then why not also show a Jewish man in a yarmulke, or a Sikh man in a turban, or a Hindu woman in a bindi?
This just proves that “religious diversity” for the Western left is just a code word for pushing Islam in our faces and allowing Muslims to invade social and cultural spaces where they don’t belong and aren’t entitled to be in. For fuck’s sake, we even have Muslim women in burkinis competing in Miss America pageants now. Imagine all the mockery we’d hear from the mainstream culture if some Orthodox Jewish woman in a tichel showed up at Miss America, but when it’s a Muzzie, then modesty culture is all cool and hip all of a sudden?
This is why I say, atheism in the West, is the other side of the coin to Islam. Atheism and Islam together make the Satanic, Marxist duo that the left is using to bring down the West and usher in their utopia.
You’re exactly right. If they were going to show a representative of one religion, they should have shown other religions and no religion, as well.
Gross.
This is how to make certain that humans hate Muslims…go right ahead, governments!
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms starts with the recognition of the supremacy of God…….not some woman wearing Muslim attire……
The righteous need to vote these Marxists OUT!