Quebec’s Bill 21 imported the French hijab ban into Canada in 2019

Evidence

While liberté is the first of the trinity of principles that make up the French national motto, the Hijab Ban stands ominously between it—like an abusive overlord—and the millions of Muslim women in France. In March 2019, that very overlord stomped into Quebec, France’s former colony in Canada, a nation widely perceived as tolerant of religious freedom, but as Palestinian Canadian law scholar Reem Bahdi reveals, houses a “deep unwillingness to challenge the stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists” that comes from the very top of the nation’s legal system. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 815

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the transnational diffusion of laïcité-style hijab bans; connects to the reader’s interest in states learning Islamophobic techniques from one another, and the Iftikhar global-synthesis read.