Proposed legislation tabled on Thursday would ban public sector employees, including teachers, police officers and others, from wearing religious symbols
Advocacy organizations and citizens such as university student Amrit Kaur, seen in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., on Oct. 5, 2018, are denouncing the Quebec government's secularism bill.The Quebec government’s secularism legislation threatens to stall promising careers, embolden intolerant segments of society and turn religious minorities into second-class citizens, two teachers who stand to be affected by the bill said Thursday.
The Montreal-area resident said the proposed legislation is “highly discriminatory” and implies people who wear religious symbols don’t have the same rights as others. “This just sends the message to people who wears religious symbols that we are secondary citizens,” she said in a phone interview. Furheen Ahmed, a teacher at a local high school, says she worries that Quebec's new legislation regarding religious symbols will encourage those who are racist or Islamophobic to become more vocal about their beliefs.Furheen Ahmed, a Montreal high school teacher who wears a hijab, said she has dreamed of being a teacher since she was a little girl.
Ahmed’s employer, the English Montreal School Board, has already said it will refuse to comply with any legislation restricting the wearing of religious symbols, and Ahmed said she’s ready to speak out and support them in their fight.
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