Canada: Publicly Funded $5 Million Study Declares Hijab no Threat Even if it Represents, "Submission and Oppression".....

Money well spent......

The Muslim hijab. There's nothing wrong with it. It's no real threat to Quebec values. And most women here wear it by choice, not because of coercion.

That's what the Bouchard-Taylor commission has concluded after a year of study costing $5 million.

In the final draft of their report - which was submitted to the provincial government yesterday and is to be made public at a press conference Thursday -scholars Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor say Quebec society will have a lot to lose if it restricts the wearing of the Muslim head scarf strictly to the home and outdoors.

Saying the province's 130,000 Muslims, especially Arab Muslim immigrants, are "along with blacks, the group that is the most touched by different forms of discrimination" in Quebec, Bouchard and Taylor plead for an end to bickering over the hijab.

"In light of a great number of unequivocal testimonies, we can take it for granted - believe us - that the young girls or women who wear it give it various meanings and are motivated in contrasting ways, some of which, it's true, don't jibe with the dominant values of our society."

(In a footnote, the professors explain some of those different meanings: "Sometimes it signifies submission and oppression, pure and simple, sometimes prudishness, respectability and modesty, and sometimes a way of affirming one's identity or autonomy or even feminism.")

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Comments

[Flea]

Saying the province's 130,000 Muslims, especially Arab Muslim immigrants, are "along with blacks, the group that is the most touched by different forms of discrimination" in Quebec

I take it this means I can now use an apostrophe on a sign without being arrested by the language police.

[Cameron]

When did they get arresting powers?

Oh right. They don't have them.

Grow up.

[atheling]

Grow up?

Uh, there is no free speech in Canada, Camoron.