A new letter signed by 200 people, including several members of the Muslim community, calls for the departure of Amira Elghawaby and the abolition of her post as federal envoy for the fight against Islamophobia.
The president of the Rassemblement pour la laïcité, Nadia El-Mabrouk, declared that this demand, of which The duty obtained a copy, was forwarded to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
According to the signatories, the apologies of Ms. Elghawaby, following remarks judging that Quebecers are mainly Islamophobic, are insufficient. As for his position, they equate the notion of combating Islamophobia with a restriction on freedom of expression.
In an interview at DutyMrs. El-Mabrouk explained that Islamophobia is a militant term that can be used to prevent any criticism of the Muslim religion.
“It’s a concept that causes death across the world, that encourages censorship and self-censorship of any criticism of fundamentalist Islam and the veiling of women,” she said.
The letter is notably signed by the professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal, Guy Rocher, as well as by Ensaf Haïdar, the wife of Raïf Badawi, a Saudi blogger who was imprisoned by the Riyadh regime in Saudi Arabia. saudi.
According to Ms. El-Mabrouk, about half of the letter’s signatories are Muslims living in Quebec or Canada.
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