Will Jews in Canada continue to wear yarmulkes?

Jews and Muslims unite in Canada: in face of a proposed ban on the wearing of "religious symbols" in public working places, Jewish and Muslim organizations united and established a joint lobbying for the struggle.

If the law is approved, it will severely harm doctors and religious civil servants who will not be able wear a yarmulke at work.

"Hareidi activists who are working to prevent the passing of the law said that "hundreds of Orthodox Jews work in public places, from engineers, accountants, lawyers, doctors in hospitals, and the list goes on. If the law is accepted, it will force everyone to stop working or to take off the yarmulke. All the day care and education places which received government recognition will not be able to serve kosher food. This is a very dangerous law. Fortunately, this law also affects Muslims and other minorities who wear a traditional costume, and they are going on a struggle. For us, our work is done by others."

Canadian Muslim lobby (NCCM) rejects the law, which is perceived as implementing institutionalized discrimination and actually creates two classes of people in Quebec.

"Instead of making use of effective and established to balance the rights, the bill rests on the foundation of the ends justify the means to achieve the target of a neutral state in terms of religion and equality," said Ihsan Gardi, CEO of the Muslim lobby.

"This issue is about human rights. Freedom of religion protects the public's right to worship of a particular religion or not to. In the absence of freedom of religion, the religious neutrality of the state is meaningless."

The "B'nai Brith Canada" organization issued a statement condemning the government of Quebec on the transfer of the bill, according to a report by the Shalom website in Toronto. In its statement, the organization emphasizes that the bill violates the fundamental freedoms enshrined in the charter of rights and freedoms in Canada and Quebec.

"The proposed bill discriminates against religious people through the denial of the right to freedom of religion," according to May Ellen Edel, national chairman of the League for Human Rights of "Bnai Brith".

"The government, by defining itself in legislation as arbiter supreme in religious freedom, is behaving in the opposite direction from that which it is supposed to implement the target of a secular state. This contradiction and the feeling that the secular state prohibits the acceptance of freedom of religion in the public realm, are in themselves an example of the misguided nature of the bill. The league which has a proven record of protecting human rights intends to intervene in this matter if necessary."

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