Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville’s recent edict to ban prayer spaces in Quebec schools, once again demonstrates the Islamophobic posturing of Quebec political elites. Opinion by Naved Bakali
, once again demonstrates the Islamophobic posturing of Quebec political elites.
Having a prayer space in my school allowed me to develop pride in my identity as a Canadian Muslim. It instilled a strong sense of discipline within me and helped me develop a moral framework with stable principles to live by. Throughout this period, I worked with the school’s faculty and staff to provide a prayer space for Muslim students.
Prayer spaces have existed in public schools across Montreal since the 1990s. I’m living proof of this. Most of these deaths came at the hands of Quebecois white nationalist Alexandre Bissonnette, who engaged in a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque in 2017 killing six Muslim men and injuring 19 others.
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