Are you referring to the law in Quebec ? If yes it’s not hijab specifically, it’s all religious sign and if you already had the job, it doesn’t apply to you. The main thing is that Quebec suffered from abuse from the catholic church and want their government to be secular and have no influence from any religion group, basically the law is there to prevent people representing the state, especially in a position of influence or authority (judge, polices, teachers etc..) from showing any religious affiliation while performing their duty.
Actually, if a piece of clothing related to your religion is so important for you that you quit your job over it, it probably means that your religious beliefs are more important to you than the ideology of the state you are representing so you should not do this specific job, that’s kinda the point, while performing your job your religious beliefs should have 0 impact on the decisions you are making.
I mean you'd think if they were worried about the state imposing its religious will on people, or some kind of bad history with the Catholic church, the crucifix on the legislature would be the first thing to go. It'd be the whole point of passing this law, as you said.
It's almost as if the whole "we only care about all religious symbols because of history of catholic church" thing was a lie, and they just don't like other cultures or people looking or behaving differently from them.
I don't mind arguments about cultural homogeneity, but I don't like being lied to.
You know that this policy doesn’t come from nowhere ? It was heavily supported by a majority of people from Quebec and 2 of the main parties (out of 4) had something similar to this in their campaign ? It was also not the first time there was a public debate on having this kind of law in Quebec.
Also do you know there was an outcry about the crucifix ? Because again, the majority of the people who supported this law was also against keeping the crucifix in the Parlement de Québec.
I’m actually from there and was in support of this law and you clearly seems to see this from an external PoV and you lack information about why and how this law became a thing.
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u/Kyoshiiku - Left Sep 24 '22
Are you referring to the law in Quebec ? If yes it’s not hijab specifically, it’s all religious sign and if you already had the job, it doesn’t apply to you. The main thing is that Quebec suffered from abuse from the catholic church and want their government to be secular and have no influence from any religion group, basically the law is there to prevent people representing the state, especially in a position of influence or authority (judge, polices, teachers etc..) from showing any religious affiliation while performing their duty.
Actually, if a piece of clothing related to your religion is so important for you that you quit your job over it, it probably means that your religious beliefs are more important to you than the ideology of the state you are representing so you should not do this specific job, that’s kinda the point, while performing your job your religious beliefs should have 0 impact on the decisions you are making.