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Niqab ban gets unanimous
support in Canada
Sunday, March 28, 2010 09:55:37 AM ,
Gurmukh Singh, IANS |
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Toronto:
Canadians have unanimously supported the niqab ban announced by
French-speaking Quebec province this week. After France, the
Canadian province is the first in North America to ban the niqab, a
top-to-toe dress worn by Muslim women.
The ban, triggered by an Egyptian immigrant woman’s refusal to
remove her niqab in her French classes in Montreal, will disallow
access to government services, schools and colleges and health care
to those who don’t remove the face veil.
A national survey at the weekend showed widespread support for the
ban in this highly polarized nation between liberals and
conservatives. According to the survey - conducted by Angus Reid for
the Montreal Gazette newspaper - 95 percent people in Quebec
province supported the law to ban the Muslim dress which they say
contradicts the liberal, secular values of their society.
Across Canada - which has 10 provinces and three national
territories - four out of five people supported the ban.
Expressing his surprise at the near-unanimity among Canadians on the
issue, Mario Canseco, vice-president of the
pollster, was quoted by the Montreal Gazette as saying, “It’s very
rare to get 80 per cent of Canadians to agree on something. With
numbers like this, there is not going to be much of a controversy
over the legislation in Quebec or anywhere else in the country.”
But Salam Elmenyawi of the Muslim Council of Montreal attributed the
poll results to the emotional climate surrounding the niqab issue.
“They are giving it based on their emotional response to a woman
covering her face, which is understandable. It is associated with
all the negative stereotypes that have been on the airwaves,” the
Muslim leader was quoted as saying.
Canada is home to about one million Muslims who are mostly
concentrated in major cities such as Montreal, Toronto and
Vancouver.
As Canada’s demographic profile changes with immigration and higher
birth rates among immigrants, the Muslim population is estimated to
triple in two decades, according to a recent report by Statistics
Canada.
Most Canadian Muslim women shun the niqab and hijab which are
usually worn by those from most orthodox Muslim countries from the
Middle East or Somalia and Ethiopia.
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