Canadians Vote Against Having Muslim Cemetery

[EagleSmack]

Welcoming... Multicultural... Tolerant...

Canada town votes against having a Muslim cemetery - BBC News

Nah, not really.

 

[Twila]

That's Quebec for ya.

 

[Danbones]

Dat's in Canada?

"We never thought people could oppose the installation of a cemetery," the centre's president Mohamed Labidi told Radio-Canada. "What are they afraid of?"
(from the link in the OP)

ah non speaking french!

 

[Twila]

Dat's in Canada?

Quebec? depends on who you ask

 

[Danbones]

Geez, a couple of silver bullets

and a steak

through the <3

should fix everything?

 

[Johnnny]

I'm all for non-denominational graveyards. No favourites just bury everyone regardless of faith in the same graveyard.

 

[Danbones]

Sad to say, Muslims already have their own grave yards
and I do mean "sad to say"

I guess the quebecoise didn't want this on their tourism maps.

 

[Murphy]

I'm good with that.

WRT regular Muslim burials, the graves are not supposed to be marked, so really, who cares where they are buried? The closest you can get is a rock or known location that the family is told (five paces due east of the date palm). No grave markers or any marking with the name, birth/death date, etc.

 

[Danbones]

Yeah they are OK with it at your house though...

an eye for an eye they call it

 

[Murphy]

Let them come. It isn't the first time I've had to deal with them.

 

[WLDB]

Sad to say, Muslims already have their own grave yards
and I do mean "sad to say"

I guess the quebecoise didn't want this on their tourism maps.

Well there's some hyperbole for you. They have cemeteries here in other parts of the country and none of them look like this. If people in Quebec voted against this because they fear what you have shown - then they are an extremely paranoid bunch.

I see no problem with giving them their own cemeteries. Damn near every other religion in Canada has their own burial grounds.

 

[taxslave]

Somehow I think there is more to this story than we are being told.

 

[Curious Cdn]

I'm all for non-denominational graveyards. No favourites just bury everyone regardless of faith in the same graveyard.

The Muslims wouldn't like that.

 

[Cliffy]

It is one small town in Quebec but Smack tries to tar every Canadian with that small brush. What a maroon.

 

[mentalfloss]

 

[Murphy]

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[Bar Sinister]

There is an easy way to get the town to change its mind. Start burying Muslims in the Christian cemetery. I'm betting the bigots will change their minds in a hurry.

 

[Curious Cdn]

There is an easy way to get the town to change its mind. Start burying Muslims in the Christian cemetery. I'm betting the bigots will change their minds in a hurry.

Are you kidding? The Muslims would go bananas! They don't want to mix their loved ones up with Christian dogs.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It is one small town in Quebec but Smack tries to tar every Canadian with that small brush. What a maroon.

Argument by anecdote is the rule here, not the exception.

 

[TenPenny]

So, the solution is that any time a Muslim applies for a zoning change, it must be approved to avoid being called racists?