Following the explicitly anti-Muslim demonstration held on March 4, on April 23 some of the same far right forces tried a different approach, calling for a demonstration against the governing provincial Liberal Party, taking care to not include anything about race or Islam in any of their materials, and telling people …
Back in October, just as the racism was coming to a boil during Quebec’s winter of hate, the FĂ©dĂ©ration des Femmes du QuĂ©bec (Quebec Women’s Federation) organized a panel on feminist responses to fundamentalism. It was a very worthwhile evening of interventions clarifying and denouncing the racist arguments at the core …
On April 8, two Islamophobic attacks were carried out in Montreal. In the first case, in the early morning hours, an axe was thrown through a window the Centre communautaire islamique Assahaba with the words âFuck Liberalsâ and âwe will exterminate Muslimsâ written on it. Then, later that day, someone …
Some explanations, for those of you who do not read french, or are not from Quebec, are below. For those of you who do read french, and are from here, you should be able to get it without having to read further. As the below is an explanation of …