Hey FLFers,
So last week a story was going around about a woman whose scarf or piece of clothing got caught in an escalator and strangled her to death. This article is a follow-up to that incident.
“Naima Rharouity, wife and mother of two, was wearing a hijab on the day of the incident. The Journal de Montréal, among others, capitalizing on heightened sensitivities towards the garb in the current charter debate reported with no verification that Naima had been strangled by her hijab. The Journal maintained the report even after police stated the cause of death was unknown. But wearing the hijab was all it took for Naima’s death to become fair game for online commentators who, fuelled by irresponsible media coverage, hurled statements such as “This is what you get for deciding to keep it on,” “Where was Allah?” and “One less terrorist in Montreal.” ”
” Naima’s death … was overshadowed by a crude obsession over whether it was an ordinary scarf or her hijab that had caught in the escalator treads. It seems there was less sympathy to spare if her hijab was to blame.”
Thank you Reannah Jade for bringing this article to the FLFs attention!
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/02/04/quebecs_xenophobic_moment.html#Scene_1
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