Quebec’s discriminatory Bill 21 causes hijab-clad teacher to be permanently removed from the classroom A third grade teacher at an elementary school in Chelsea, a small Quebec town on the border with Ontario, was removed from her classroom earlier this month because she wears a hijab, an Islamic headscarf that covers her head but not her face. This discriminatory act, which puts a teacher’s career in jeopardy because of her personal religious choices, is a serious attack on democratic rights. It underscores the reactionary, chauvinist character of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government’s “state secularism” law, or Bill 21 as it is popularly known. The immediate repeal of this reactionary and Islamophobic legislation must ... Continue reading... https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/22/qcbi-d22.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Quebec’s discriminatory Bill 21 causes hijab-clad teacher to be permanently removed from the classroom[/google]
