The people of St. Apollinaire didn't reject a Muslim cemetery. Rather, they voted in favour of secular, non-denominational cemeteries in the municipality. That was the question, so people can calm down. You have to remember that when Quebeckers turned away from the dominance of the Catholic Church, that province became the most aggressively secular in the country. A few years ago there was also a huge kerfuffle about a Catholic religious symbol hanging in the Quebec legislature, so it's a general rejection of religion and an affirmation of the democratic separation between church and state -- not specifically anti-Muslim.
Remember when that idiot Dalton McGinty was pondering Sharia Law in Ontario??!!?? And to think he is now a professor at Harvard...........it is to weep.
Any cemetery I have visited has people of all faiths buried in it -- Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, you name it -- because by the way, I don't think there are special sections roped off for individual religions in heaven. It won't be, "Protestants here, Catholics there, Methodists on this side, Lutherans on the other." No, anyone who makes it will be thrown in with everyone else. And since we're dead, who cares?
Frankly, I think it's segregationist for Muslims to insist on their own burial ground. This is Canada, muck in.
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