[A-IMC radio] Radio Tadamon! Racism, religion and reasonable accommodation.

[Stefan Christoff]

From: Tadamon! <tadamon at resist.ca>


* Radio Tadamon! Racism, religion and reasonable accommodation.
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1152

Listen to an edition of Radio Tadamon! featuring a critique on a
state-sponsored series of hearings in Quebec on 'reasonable
accommodation', which has placed the cultural and religious rights of
immigrant communities in the political spotlight.

Radio Tadamon! features a presentation from Gada Mahrouse, academic and
social justice activist, who offers an anti-racist view on the issue in a
lecture in Montreal, in the context of a grassroots event organized in
Montreal north examining the impacts of the current debate on 'reasonable
accommodation' in Quebec on immigrant communities specifically addressing
the impacts of the debate on Muslim women.

"This widespread discrimination happening against immigrants that we are
seeing now, happens in waves throughout history," explains Gada Mahrouse
in the lecture, "when you when you read through newspaper reports about
'reasonable accommodation', the central figure at the heart of coverage is
the veiled woman, although what is striking to is that the veiled women
herself is rarely heard, instead you come upon surveys, opinions and polls
about her."

Radio Tadamon! is produced by Tadamon! a collective of activists in
Montreal working to build solidarity between movements for social and
economic justice between Montreal and the Middle East.

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