The cold-blooded shooting of six Muslims following evening prayers on Jan 29 at a Québec City mosque has, predictably, amplified the acrimonious debate over racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia in Quebec – as the suspect, who…
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Quebec’s Secularism Works Against Muslims: Experts
Quebec’s relationship with religion must be considered in local efforts to prevent radicalization, say experts. “Public displays of religion or publicly practising religion are seen as not part of what Quebec is about,” says Amarnath…
View More Quebec’s Secularism Works Against Muslims: ExpertsDialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany Laferrière
Great changes were on the horizon. It was the end of March 1789. The Estates General had been summoned by King Louis XVI, and the forty “Immortals” of the Académie française gathered in an “secret…
View More Dialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany LaferrièreDialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany Laferrière
Great changes were on the horizon. It was the end of March 1789. The Estates General had been summoned by King Louis XVI, and the forty “Immortals” of the Académie française gathered in an “secret…
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