Friday, March 12, 2010

Is Violent Anti-Religion Extremism in the Cards for Quebec?

On Wednesday I wrote about the niqab clad women who was kicked out of French class. I remarked that it signalled a change in the official attitude of the government and could signal a dangerous deterioration in relations with minority communites.

In reaction, a reader,  Pierre-Luc commented that;
 In Charlesbourg (a suburb of Quebec City) a citizen kicked out a Muslum from a supermarket.
(À Charlebourg, y'a un citoyen qui a kické out une musulmane intégriste d'un supermarché)
He referred me to a link that played a portion of the radio-show Radio de Quebec that discussed the matter and quite frankly when I listened to the extract I was disturbed.

It seems that the good citizen assaulted a Muslim women in a Quebec City supermarket and forcibly ejected her from the store because he was offended by her veil.

The radio panel and the idiot assaulter spent a great deal of time discussing the veil and it's evil impact on Quebec society, while conveniently forgetting to mention that the attacker committed nothing less than a criminal assault.  Nobody even mentioned calling in the police.

The attacker was quite pleased with himself and declared any one wearing religious regalia in public, 'fair game.'
Attitudes have changed dramatically in Quebec, vis-a-vis accommodations and it seems that it is now open season on women wearing veils.

What's next? Bearded Hasids, Turban wearing-Sikhs, Sari-clad Indians?

There is an anti-religion movement growing in the province, led by a radical coterie of secular, white Francophones, failed Christians, and I'm shocked that it has developed so rapidly.

Is there a vigilantism growing in Quebec, in the spirit of the Nazi BROWNSHIRTS that terrorized minorities in pre-war Germany?
Is this the beginning?

Next week I shall write about this unprecedented attack by secularists on all religions.