Mayor gets hate messages over secularity
I’ve been told (not for the first time) to stick to Montreal news and stop posting about Quebec, but when the mayor is the target of violent hate messages over her measured response to Bill 21, it shows that the CAQ’s secularity bill is Montreal news.
I’ve seen dozens of pieces on the subject of the bill, and hope to get around to a survey sometime this weekend, but the best analysis I’ve read has been this brief piece in Le Droit, a source I don’t often get to. Patrick Duquette puts his finger on a fact about Quebec that needs more analysis: that the new law stems from bad memories of the grande noirceur when Quebec was totally the creature of the Roman Catholic church, and a resulting fear of a return to the social dominance of religion.
That a bare 3% of the population here are Muslim doesn’t seem to matter; that they chose to leave predominantly Muslim countries and that only roughly half of them (by reports I’ve seen) are religiously observant doesn’t seem to matter. None of them want to impose sharia law here, nobody’s knocking on doors trying to convert anybody.
It used to feel like we were still fighting the Hundred Years War here between England and France, but do we have to re-enact the Crusades as well?
Jack 13:09 on 2019-03-30 Permalink
With Kate and I will repeat it again, if you want to see where this “fear” comes from pick up a Journal de Montreal. Listen to ” La Joute”, watch LCN and TVA. Go to Quebec city, turn on your radio. Islamophobia is omnipresent and packaged to sell…….stuff.
Something good happened this afternoon, Quebec Solidaires members just told their parliamentary delegation that the membership is decisional. They have decided that they will be the only party in the National Assembly not to target minorities for electoral gains in places where their are not any. Thank You.
qatzelok 17:50 on 2019-03-30 Permalink
When the rich and powerful want to control a people, they divide them with fear of one another. As a media creator, it’s important not to take part in fear mongering either way. Otherwise, you’re not a neutral observer, but a participant.
A lot of media participate in this game of dividing people over trivial things.