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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:15 PM Oct 2015

Canadian PM says he'd consider banning public servants from wearing niqabs

Source: CBC News

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says his government would consider banning public servants from wearing the niqab, but rejects the suggestion that recent assaults against Muslim women should stifle debate about the issue.

... The Conservatives' steps to ban wearing a niqab while taking the citizenship oath, along with the campaign pledge to create a "barbaric cultural practices" tip line, have led some to accuse the Conservatives of engaging in identity politics and fuelling anti-Muslim sentiment.

... There have been at least two recently reported assaults on Muslim women in the wake of the niqab controversy.

... In an interview Tuesday with CBC Radio's The House, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the public debate over the niqab has become too heated, and he made an appeal to Harper. "To the prime minister directly: Stop this before someone truly gets hurt. We've had women attacked in the streets for wearing hijabs and niqabs. This is not Canada."

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-niqab-ban-public-servants-1.3258943

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Canadian PM says he'd consider banning public servants from wearing niqabs (Original Post) Newsjock Oct 2015 OP
The cons have gone full bore on the politics of fear and division. It is disgusting to observe. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #1
would he say the same about a Jew or a Sikh? hobbit709 Oct 2015 #2
Just not as useful for playing the game of fear politics as a scary Muslim...years of faux paranoia Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. The cons have gone full bore on the politics of fear and division. It is disgusting to observe.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:32 PM
Oct 2015

Small point no one seems want to mention is that the ban proposed on the clothing is at a purely celebratory ceremony that takes place AFTER the official ceremony, the oath of citizenship has already been administered and verified before an official government representative.....there is no "ID issue", the issue is why the fuck this is more important an issue than say....jobs?!

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Just not as useful for playing the game of fear politics as a scary Muslim...years of faux paranoia
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:35 PM
Oct 2015

by media has prepared the battlefield for the racists and bigots that also inhabit this party as it does an American party.

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