05 June 2013

Don Macpherson: The turban ban is likely to play well

Don Macpherson: The turban ban is likely to play well

At least [Brigitte Frot, General Manager, Federation de Soccer du Quebec] stopped short of saying they should go back to their own country, which they can’t anyway, since they’re already there. She would settle for their playing out of sight of the rest of us ...

 In the Journal de Montréal, the province’s most-read newspaper, columnist Joseph Facal congratulated the federation for standing up to the “fanaticism” of religious minorities (who are simply defending a freedom promised them by Quebec’s own charter of rights) ...

And poll results recently published by the government suggest that the federation will have public opinion on its side. In the poll on religious accommodations commissioned by the government in March, one of the questions was 

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