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As an atheist, albeit an American one, I believe that we should restrict all worship and prayer to the privacy of one's home, exclusively.
Wasn't the Supreme Court supposed to give its verdict on this? So either the court said nothing or the QC government just passed it anyway.
"If you are a minority, specifically one that has to pray 5 times throughout the day, you don't get university anymore."
- Fr*nce.
Sounds like an idea that will be presented in Reason's Great Moments in Unintended Consequences in few years.
Who tf does this help
Secularism? As long as it’s applied across the board - including Christians and others - this seems sensible.
It would be sensible. But what's the benefit?
Generally speaking? I suspect most of our issues currently and previously are either caused by religions or are using religions in a form or another. Look at USA / Israel if that’s not obvious. Even Buddhists have been killing over religion. Sects in Japan have done horrible things…
I could remove 1 trait of humanity I would seriously consider removing the soft spot for the love of mysticisms.
And thus limiting religious practices is sensible and has the benefit to decrease exposure to non involved persons.
Great harm had been done in the name it religion but you're overlooking the good that's been done.
The population?
It stops public praying as a virtue. When praying is only done in private you can’t judge people being a worse Christian etc for not participating.
So you’ll have a more secular society with more room for people to practice their religion as they see fit. Not doing things just because it’s expected of you.
Like if there’s prayer room at a school. More people will use it because they don’t want to be seen as a bad Muslim. Even if they wouldn’t normally pray at those times.
It creates pressures and expectations.
Peer pressure will exist regardless though. This provides as space for people to pray in private.
Why not make the prayer rooms individual rooms? Would that not solve the edge case you describe?
There is no logic to this person's stance, they just want to do harm to the other. They wrap that in a veil of impartial rational reasoning to quell the cognitive dissonance.
If this law was phrased as anti-loitering to keep homeless people off sidewalks or banning private rooms for nursing mothers they would be up in arms. It's functionally the same, but since it targets their preferred adversary they nod in approval.
At my university (US), one of my calculus professors with a 150+ student lecture hall would repeatedly open his lecture with a slide showing his church and an invitation for students to join him there on Sunday. Absolutely inappropriate to proselytize a captive audience under his power to pass/fail them. There has to be some accountability for universities to stop this, but not to harass a person wearing a cross necklace or a koppel or a hijab. Shame this is legislated at such a high level instead of people just being professional and not a*holes.
And I'm sure like french laicite this will be enforced unequally and will discriminate in order to target minorities.
It doesn't need to. I don't think anyone but Muslims is required to pray multiple times a day and need places to do so. It's specifically meant to be an anti-Muslim law.
Just like making it illegal for anybody to sleep under a bridge. Surely that wasn't aimed at the homeless, right?
Muslims don't need places to do so (Friday prayer aside), but they have to pray somewhere and they're also forbidding praying in the street.
Defining prayer is difficult, surely?
Would that be a catch all cause for investigations?
I figure this will be compared to thought-crime law.
Minister Roberge has previously stated that street prayers could be considered “acts of provocation.”
Municipalities will be able to authorize them, but only under certain criteria. The new law will also ban the wearing of religious symbols by daycare educators. The government is also extending this ban to teachers and staff at private schools.
Bloody ridiculous. This helps nobody.
I thought the whole point of secularism / separation of church and state was that the state couldn't ban individual religious expression nor the right to assembly for religious purposes (or any other purpose)?
If the municipalities now have a say in what religious activities are authorized, and which aren't, then that's no longer separation of church and state.
So, yes, specifically targeting Muslims, but catching strays with Yarmulkes as well.
Bad law. There will be consequences for this law.