Teaching "Islamic Religious Concepts" Brings Social Conflict To Canada

“There is something very disturbing in this case. It is this attempt by a group of teachers to introduce Islamist religious concepts into a public school,” stated Quebec Premier Francois Legault.

“There is something very disturbing in this case. It is this attempt by a group of teachers to introduce Islamist religious concepts into a public school,” stated Quebec Premier Francois Legault this week.

"In Quebec, we decided a long time ago to remove religion from public schools. We will never accept going back.”

When it comes to issues of this nature, Canadians would be wise to adhere to the concept of "never say never."  Political power among rapidly-growing 3rd World communities in Canada should not be counted out, particularly when the federal government is importing, advancing and funding "causes" of this nature.

"Members of the mosque intervened on occasion to ensure the conformity of the (Bedford) school model with a cultural model defended by the community, which included the mosque."

"The report described the group of problematic teachers as being of North African descent, some of whom attended the mosque together," stated Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville.

In basic terms, a collection of teachers have made a unilateral decision to supersede Canadian values and law, substituting them with archaic "spiritual" principles. Psychological and verbal abuse flavours the provincial government report, in addition to gender discrimination.

"Some of them even went as far as hindering surveillance of their classrooms by covering class door windows or interior windows in classrooms that have them," the report reads.

"The report states that the news coverage on Bedford alluded to teachers were taking part in religious practices inside classrooms."

"Drainville has ordered audits at three other Montreal schools — two elementary schools and a high school — that allegedly had similar problems related to the school environment and governance."

Critical it is to witness attitudes espoused by community representatives:

"Muslim community leaders in Montreal have denounced how politicians, such as Legault, Drainville and St-Pierre Plamondon, are reigniting the debate about secularism in the province following the Bedford report."

What exactly is being communicated here? That mental and psychological abuse should become acceptable in our educational institutions? That the Department of Education should be condemned for so-called "Islamophobia?"

It's a tedious pattern which general society should be contemplating in serious fashion. For one thing, claims of complete innocence of the part of accused. And, of course, corralling the impropriety into a bullpen of so-called "Islamophobia." Why not break the pattern for once and admit that wrong-doing has taken place?

Who knows, doing so might actually build rapport with the 95% of Canadians who fall outside  "identifiable community" parameters. Serious students of politics won't be holding their breath for this one, of course. After all, we have a Trudeau-family member as national leader.

"They say politicians weaponize the idea of secularism against cultural communities, especially those who practise Islam, because of the religious garb worn by some of them."

Is the situation as simplistic as this? Does the "religious garb" issue really exist at the core of this "culture clash?" Sound like a major cop-out.

"It's quite troubling to see that the government jumps at every small opportunity to find blame, to blame the Muslim community in some way or another," said Farida Mohamed, the co-president of the Montreal chapter of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.

Blame, victimhood— all the "usual suspects" come out to play. What hasn't transpired is even a modicum of contrition in regards to alleged abuse at a Montreal public school.

That's public, as opposed to "private," meaning the "education" is being funded by taxpayers in Quebec. Is this a situation that general society approve of? Not a chance is your answer.

Turning focus to a separate incident, we discover that "high school students at one of the four Montreal schools under investigation by Quebec's Education Ministry for alleged toxic behaviour among staff say their teacher referenced wanting to hit them last week."

"They mentioned something about our grades, and that we weren't doing so good. So they were like, If I could, I would hit you guys to get you to study and do better in your classes.' And she was mentioning her old country and how they did it there, and how she can't do it anymore because it's banned," a student named Adalyhia told CBC News. 

After which Cultural Action Party [est.2016] offer up an response from academia:

"Chedly Belkhodja, a professor at Concordia University's School of Community of Public Affairs, says the statements from the Coalition Avenir Québec party and the PQ are basically the same tune that's been sung in the province for years when it comes to cultural identity."

"Nationalist groups are using some issues to promote a certain vision of identity in Quebec and it's always to the detriment of immigrant populations, mostly Muslims and people from North Africa," said Belkhodja.

So the problem is nationalism? Or the fact that a segment of Canadians oppose an implementation of anachronistic cultural practices that potentially violate Canadian law?

"He[Education Minister]  ran down some of the revelations in the report, which highlighted a series of incidents including a teacher praying over a child lying on the floor of a classroom."

“Science and sex education courses were either not being taught or barely taught, and on several occasions young girls were told they were not allowed to play soccer because it was a sport ‘reserved for the boys.’”

And general society should accept this behaviour for fear of being branded racist? What a trap this is.

"The report describes a series of radio news items from 98.5 FM that outline a long list of issues with how these teachers allegedly behaved. They include reports of teachers screaming at students, punishing them in humiliating fashion, treating them differently depending on their gender and preventing resource staff from helping students with learning difficulties."

All good according to purveyors of archaic religious principles? How messed up it all is. The time has arrived to "just say no" to this form of education throughout Canadian society.

If not for ourselves, for future generations. Secularism in education is the law. If potential immigrants don't like or laws, or refuse to adhere to them, then don't move to Canada.