Niqab
“I also wear a niqab and according to my prime minister, that’s is all you need to know about me to know that I am oppressed” said Zunera Iahaq to Toronto star. A niqab “veil worn by some Muslim women in public, covering all of the face apart from the eyes” (dictionary.com) .Zunera was told to remove her niqab when receiving her oath ceremony of citizenship. She refused to remove it because of her religious purpose therefore her citizenship was on hold till for a year. The government had banned the wearing of the niqab in claiming Canadian citizenship and has to remove it also when swearing on the citizenship oath. The reason why the government has decided to ban the niqab because they think that the niqab is a threat and they need the people to be identified at the ceremony also they think the niqab is oppression to women. I am against the banning of the niqab because I think that since we live in a democratic nation we should have equality rights, justification/legal rights, and fundamental rights. These …show more content…
The Charter protects the basic human rights to life, liberty and physical and psychological safety. The Charter also protects everyone’s reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes, private spaces and personal information. “Stop this before someone truly gets hurt. We’ve had women attacked in the streets for wearing hijabs and niqabs. This not Canada” Trudeau told Chris hall, host of the house .In this quote that Justin Trudeau has said to Stephan harper applying that many women wearing a niqab were physical attacked. This is just disgusting because many women don’t feel safe walking in the streets while wearing the niqab. This is proving that because of the ban many are reacting in range by attacking women wearing niqabs and this is against the justification/legal rights because people are physical hurting these women and many of these women don’t feel safe leaving their
“I also wear a niqab and according to my prime minister, that’s is all you need to know about me to know that I am oppressed” said Zunera Iahaq to Toronto star. A niqab “veil worn by some Muslim women in public, covering all of the face apart from the eyes” (dictionary.com) .Zunera was told to remove her niqab when receiving her oath ceremony of citizenship. She refused to remove it because of her religious purpose therefore her citizenship was on hold till for a year. The government had banned the wearing of the niqab in claiming Canadian citizenship and has to remove it also when swearing on the citizenship oath. The reason why the government has decided to ban the niqab because they think that the niqab is a threat and they need the people to be identified at the ceremony also they think the niqab is oppression to women. I am against the banning of the niqab because I think that since we live in a democratic nation we should have equality rights, justification/legal rights, and fundamental rights. These …show more content…
The Charter protects the basic human rights to life, liberty and physical and psychological safety. The Charter also protects everyone’s reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes, private spaces and personal information. “Stop this before someone truly gets hurt. We’ve had women attacked in the streets for wearing hijabs and niqabs. This not Canada” Trudeau told Chris hall, host of the house .In this quote that Justin Trudeau has said to Stephan harper applying that many women wearing a niqab were physical attacked. This is just disgusting because many women don’t feel safe walking in the streets while wearing the niqab. This is proving that because of the ban many are reacting in range by attacking women wearing niqabs and this is against the justification/legal rights because people are physical hurting these women and many of these women don’t feel safe leaving their