Fewer than a hundred Quebec residents wear face-covering niqab or burqa

Evidence

The entire Canadian province of Quebec has a population of 8.4 million with only “fifty to one hundred” people in the entire province of Quebec (less than .0012 percent of their entire population) who choose to wear the niqab or burqa, according to the New York Times. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the tiny-Muslim-population fact pattern underlying Beydoun’s argument that Islamophobia inflates a minuscule minority into a perceived threat.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 420