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Muslim women will have to remove face coverings to vote in Quebec election
Canadian Press via canada.com ^
| Friday, March 23, 2007
| Staff
Posted on 03/23/2007 2:13:24 PM PDT by GMMAC
Muslim women will have to remove face coverings
to vote in Quebec election
Canadian Press via canada.com
Published: Friday, March 23, 2007
(within the past hour)
QUEBEC (CP) - Muslim women will have to remove their face coverings if they want to vote in Monday's Quebec election.
Quebec's chief returning officer has reversed an earlier decision and is now telling Muslim women who wear a niqab to show their faces when they vote. Facing threats from ordinary citizens that they would show up at polling stations wearing masks, Marcel Blanchet said in Quebec City Friday that voting day must proceed without incident.
Blanchet had to get two bodyguards as a result of his initial decision and Elections Quebec had received threatening phone calls and e-mails.
Quebec's three main political leaders had asked Blanchet to reverse the decision.
Blanchet says he's using special powers under electoral law to make the change.
Action democratique du Quebec Leader Mario Dumont says the law must be evenly applied to all citizens on voting day.
© The Canadian Press 2007
TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude; diversity; french; islam; islamofacism; muhammadsminions; multiculturalism; quebec
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:13:29 PM PDT
by
GMMAC
To: GMMAC
threats from ordinary citizens that they would show up at polling stations wearing masks Let's hear it for ordinary citizens!
2
posted on
03/23/2007 2:15:28 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: fanfan; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...
PING!
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:15:37 PM PDT
by
GMMAC
(Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
To: GMMAC
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:16:13 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: GMMAC
Threats? Not from the Religion of Peace! /S
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:18:15 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Do unto others as they do unto you!)
To: GMMAC
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:19:41 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: Izzy Dunne
right on! As an ordinary citizen myself I will threaten to bring a pitchfork and torch if allowed.
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:20:41 PM PDT
by
soycd
To: rocksblues
I read it that the threats came from ordinary citizens after the initial decision to ALLOW them to cover their faces..thus the reversal and threat by ordinary citizens to wear masks..
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:23:13 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(Never argue with an idiot..they'll bring you down to their level, then beat you with experience..)
To: GMMAC
There are francophone's with a spine? Who knew?
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:23:49 PM PDT
by
null and void
(To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
To: Izzy Dunne
Good for them (the ordinary citizens)
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:24:30 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: GMMAC
Facing threats from ordinary citizens that they would show up at polling stations wearing masksJust WOW!
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:24:32 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: Buck W.
That's not what the veils were for in the first place?
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:25:22 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
You are correct. My religion of peace bias got the best of me!
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:25:36 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Do unto others as they do unto you!)
To: GMMAC
Finally, a little common sense!
One law for everyone.
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:29:32 PM PDT
by
exg
To: GMMAC
Good for Blanchet! More and more people are starting to stand up to the Muslims. That's a good thing.
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:29:52 PM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: metmom
Does that mean they will have to start shaving??
WHAT A HOOT!
NEXT THING YOU KNOW...WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO SEE THEIR LEGS TOO!!!!!!!
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:30:54 PM PDT
by
Stayfree
(*****************************************DON'T LOOK, YOU'LL TURN TO STONE!!!!!)
To: All
To: GMMAC
Oh no. Revealing one's hairdo?
Prepare for an onslaught of the hair terrorists.
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:34:26 PM PDT
by
eleni121
( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))
To: rocksblues
Actually, it's the other way around with the threats apparently coming from ordinary citizens appalled by the Chief Electoral Officer's pandering.
These days up here, even in Quebec, there's finally a chill wind blowing against politically correct nonsense & the tail wagging the dog.
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:41:09 PM PDT
by
GMMAC
(Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
To: GMMAC
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posted on
03/23/2007 2:42:26 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Do unto others as they do unto you!)
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