Quebec passes law forcing Muslim women from wearing niqab while using public services

Apparently this applies to staff at the Provincial and municipal level providing public services (including public transit), as well as those receiving the services.

The bill requires citizens giving and receiving public services to do so with their faces uncovered, and is seen as "... necessary for "communication reasons, identification reasons and security reasons."

your thoughts, SW? No hateful comments please

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-niqab-burka-bill-62-1.4360121?cid=

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CaptainCanadia · 41-45, M

It's racist bullshit.

Quebec has an interesting history in that it was one basically a thrall of the Catholic church. As a result, it has very, very strong ideas about secularism in state. This gets wrapped in with the typical Islamophobia you see across the west, and results in laws like this.

They're pretending this is not a law about religious garb and is just about any face covering. Obviously this is not true. It's a hateful, unnecessary, mean-spirited law. It's not going to 'free' any women, it's going to force them to stay home and hide. You don't free women by robbing them of their religious choice.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

True if you know the history or Quebec they would understand that it is a zenophobic law couched in supposed common sense. @CaptainCanadia

Salix75 · 46-50, F

@CaptainCanadia the issues certainly are hard to separate. But can this law - which (as I understand it) really cause so much damage if a woman only needs to uncover for 20 seconds so an employee can confirm her identity be too much to ask?

CopperCicada · M

@CaptainCanadia which is why one writes a law on the basis of facial identification and that would apply to muslim women, tamisheq men, furries with snouts, and people with masks.