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Published on Sunday, 06 October 2013 09:33

Anti-charter March on for Quebec City,

pro-Charter Rally Postponed

(Montreal Gazette By Catherine Solyom, The Gazette) --

Quebec City police may be breathing easier now that a

pro-Charter of Values demonstration initially scheduled for

Sunday has been postponed until the end of October.

The march was set to take place at the same time and

place in front of the National Assembly as an anti-

charter rally organized by the Collectif Qubcois Contre

lIslamophobie (Quebec collective against Islamophobia),

the same group that drew an estimated 40,000 protesters

to a rally in Montreal Sept. 14.

The CQCI, which counts among its spokespeople Imam

Salam Elmenyawi of the Muslim Council of Montreal and

Adil Charkaoui, whose case before the Supreme Court of

Canada eventually led to his security certificate being

revoked in 2009, hailed the development as good news

Saturday on their Facebook page.

It is organizing buses to take demonstrators from Montreal

to Quebec City and hopes to rally people from all parts of

Quebec.

With a new logo a red circle on white background said

to represent the urgency of taking action against a

government turning around in circles rather than attacking

real problems in society, the group says it wants to take its

message right to Premier Pauline Marois and the minister

for democratic institutions, Bernard Drainville, the principal

architects of the charter.

With the first demonstration the Collective was being

demonized and I had the impression that the media tried to

minimize or deform the message of peace and inclusion

by thousands of people, and they didnt want it to reach

Quebec City, Charkaoui said Saturday, adding that the

Montreal protest included federalists and sovereignists,francophones and anglophones, Sikhs, Muslims, Jews and

Christians.

So we decided well go to Quebec City to sing them the

same song that we dont want working women excluded,

that we dont want Sikh boys to not be able to play soccer

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or Jews to not be able to wear their kippahs.

Charkaoui said the debate over the Charter, which would

prohibit anyone working in the public service from being

able to wear ostentatious religious symbols, has been far

from respectful and serene as Drainville would have it.

Rather, the debate, and Drainville himself, have enflamed

tensions and increased the number of racist acts

perpetrated against religious minorities, Charkaoui said,

referring to an interview in which Drainville said

Islamization is a reality in Montreal.

When the minister responsible for this debate says such

nonsense in the media he cant be surprised when women

are getting spat on the bus.

Charkaoui, who founded the CQCI in 2010, said he himself

has received several death threats recently, telling him his

days were numbered, with photos of weapons attached.

One man was arrested this week, he said, and will appear

in court at the end of the month. The cybercrimes squad of

the Montreal police is investigating, he said.

He used his real name, Charkaoui said, not even a

pseudonym because islamophobia has become

acceptable.

An anti-Charter of Values demonstration organized by

different groups in Park Extension is also planned for

Sunday, to be held at Athena Park, from 3 to 5 p.m.

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