Surely You're Hiding Something
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In the West, Muslims are already surveilled and seen as a security threat. Security Shuffle goes even further, however, saying that the act of covering, either with a turban or a hijab, makes racialized people even further surveilled, as they are assumed to be hiding something. When people believe that Muslims, or anyone racialized as a Muslim to be dangerous, and on top of that, they cover, thus not exposing everything that people think they should expose, they must be hiding something that surely, is a security threat.
The outcome of the Bouchard Taylor commission made it so that accountability to less obvious forms of racism were not addressed and created a superiority complex among French Quebecois who believed themselves to be tolerant, accepting and secular compared to the closeminded, conservative, extreme Muslim immigrants coming to Quebec who threaten Quebec secularism. The Catholic history in Quebec though, makes it so that any act of secularism in Quebec, will always be engrained with Catholicism. If one cannot practice their non-Christian religion for the sake of secularism in public, they will automatically be confided to practicing the Christian norms engrained in Quebec society, thus making it not truly secularism but rather anti-Muslim, and anti-immigrant, while at the same time, framing Quebecois as accepting and advanced and the immigrants as backwards.