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The same woman who was banned from an “integration” class
funded by the Quebec government for refusing to remove her Niqab, has been removed from another class for the same reason.
The immigrant from Egypt is launching a “human rights” complaint
after provincial Immigration Department officials expelled her last
fall from a government-sponsored language course after she refused to take off her niqab. The school had asked her first, citing problems of interacting in the classroom because of the face-covering.
I think most people will agree there is a logical disconnect
with a woman taking a cultural integration class, paid for by the
taxpayers, and then refusing one of the most reasonable and basic
requests to that integration.
Instructors in the community centre where the class was being
offered said they need to be able to look at the face of their
students in order to correct their elocution and language pronunciation
in class, which is of course impossible when one can only see the
student’s eyes.
Apparently the student is, at times, amenable to reason. She removed
her veil to have her student picture ID taken, and when speaking
privately to a female teacher. When she refused later to remove her veil,
she was also offered the course online, but apparently did not take up
the offer.
Even ordinarily sympathetic ears have said Quebec has made a
“reasonable attempt to accommodate her. But then again, this is the Quebec
Human Rights Commission we’re talking about, an entity which evicted a mid-60s woman with a bum shoulder from her condo parking space so it could be given instead to a 57-year-old woman who weighs 389 pounds.
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Adrian MacNair is a Vancouver writer and blogger. Read more here.
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