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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

I'm an atheist from Québec. This is just the new thing of the right, pretending that this is an issue. It's not, never seen one street prayer in Montreal in decades. The just want to target Muslims to score cheap political points, fuck every single one of them.

[–] Jay101@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Banning prayers in the street is fine, what is the reason for banning prayer rooms? In some places, these are also meditation rooms.

Btw, same guy who said they support illegal attack by US and Israel.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's banning rooms explicitely for prayer, so you can still have an empty room meant for prayer, just needs to allow other things as well.

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

So wait, what happens to all the chapels in hospitals and such? Or is this solely applicable to universities/cegep and not much else?

Which is still convoluted considering the McGill campus is both an educational facility and a hospital so which way does that lean…?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That sounds remarkably ...sane and balanced if that's the ruling. Are we sure this is the CAQ?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

tbh most of the rules in the law are much more reasonable than they sound, the only thing that's really objectionable is the hijab ban. And even then if you were hired before nover 7th you're exempt afaik.

[–] Jay101@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hijab Ban is fine if they also ban any kind of hat, cap, furry head gear, veils in weddings, etc.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

They are banned. This is about teachers and educators, they already were not allowed to wear headgear, but religious stuff was exempted, until now.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you think this would help or hurt QAC polling numbers?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Doesn't matter, they're dead anyways.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fucking Bullshit by a dying (and gerontocratic) gov

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

gerontocratic

I learned something. I did not know that was a word.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago
[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is no different than China ethenic unity law. It is a racist laws and this community is full of racists

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 days ago

Hyperbolics too?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only problem with universities is people living on Residence but I assume this isn't banning it from their own rooms.

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

That would on par with banning masturbation. You can't ban what people do on their own behind closed doors.

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By street prayers do they mean those annoying people outside the metro stops?

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The ones trying to convert people Christianity or whatever? I’m sure they’ve not got a huge issue with that for some reason.

[–] CaptainThor@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Glad to hear it, I don’t want to see or hear about your religion. Worship whatever bullshit you like at home.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

how often is this a problem for you?

I have managed to live here for a quarter century and I don't remember ever been bothered by people praying in a park

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

The problem with this is that it overwhelmingly targets muslims. Christians don’t wear specific things as part of their religion(and will conveniently get passes for “cultural/historic reasons”, I doubt they’ll be too mad about the stuff that the jews in Mile End wear, and they’ll certainly not change the crazy catholic names of many of the schools and hospitals in the province, but they will and have fired people over the hijab.

It’s a blantant attack on a specific group because the CAQ is a useless, racist organization intent on letting the entire province fall to pieces because they only have a handful of angry, misfiring braincells between them.

I also think religion is dumb but you don’t solve it this way. The CAQ spends more energy on this than it does fixing the healthcare issues and that’s so fucking embarrassing.