PROVINCE OF ONTARIO SAYS CRITICISM OF MUSLIM PRAYER
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ‘RACIST’
The Ontario provincial
government sanctioned special
religious status for Muslim students in the
public school system after the Canadian House of Commons voted in favor of
an “Islamophobia” motion Thursday that critics say could have long-term
consequences on freedom of speech.
The Peel District School Board,
responsible for a large swath of schools in the suburbs of Toronto, allows
Muslim students to hold regular Friday prayer session on school time and on
school property. Parents have objected to this practice because they say
Christians and Jews are not allowed to hold religious meetings.
“I have
met with the leadership of Peel and have obviously been very concerned about
what I’ve seen and heard,” said Education Minister Mitzie Hunter in a joint
statement with Children and Youth Services Minister Michael Coteau,
who back the school board. Later, she told reporters in Toronto, “It felt
important to Minister Coteau and I to really reinforce our expectations …
there’s just no tolerance for discrimination of any sort. We don’t tolerate
issues of racism and Islamophobia.”
The school prayers have become an
issue because local imams are invited to pray and speak to the students in
Arabic, and the school board cannot provide assurances that the students are
not being subjected to radical Islamic indoctrination. Continue reading
at The Daily Caller
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