Mosque attack in Québec City
Jan 30, 2017 20:03:26 GMT
Post by lagatta on Jan 30, 2017 20:03:26 GMT
Some of you may recall imec's photos of the lovely small city of Québec, our capital. A scenic place in a dramatic setting, but like the Federal capital Ottawa, also with a reputation of a rather dull place where not much happens outside the National Assembly, as the main activities are government and administration, and academia.
Indeed the modest community of Québec City residents from majority Muslim countries began with foreign students, mostly from the Maghreb and some from West Africa, studying at Laval University and other institutions. Many stayed on and worked, secured professional jobs or opened businesses, founded families, living alongside other city residents. There was an older Lebanese community, some Christian, some Muslim.
Unskilled labour migration is more likely to arrive here from elsewhere in the Americas nowaday, so the portrait of the Muslim communities in Québec City, even more than in Montréal, is very different from those in France or Belgium.
I don't really like describing communities by their supposed religious affiliation as not everyone practises or believes, but it is relevant in this particular case because it was an attack on a mosque. We still don't know much of the motivations of the suspects: one of whom was of Moroccan descent and the other an old-stock francophone Québecois, both young men.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-mosque-shaooting-victims-1.3958191 Two of the people killed have been identified: a university professor and the owner of a popular grocery and butcher shop in Ste-Foy, the former suburb where Laval University is located. This CBC article links to the other stories on the sad event.
There will be a vigil here in Montréal, not very far from where I live, at a public square near a métro station and a large mosque. I may go, if I make enough progress in the work I'm doing. People here and elsewhere are outraged.
Edited to add: we know far more. Only the young old-stock francophone man is in custody; the young Moroccan man seemed to trying to stop him (though this remains unclear).
He's a scrawny little guy; reminds me of Dylan Roof, the white supremacist who killed 9 African-American people at prayer in a historic church.
Indeed the modest community of Québec City residents from majority Muslim countries began with foreign students, mostly from the Maghreb and some from West Africa, studying at Laval University and other institutions. Many stayed on and worked, secured professional jobs or opened businesses, founded families, living alongside other city residents. There was an older Lebanese community, some Christian, some Muslim.
Unskilled labour migration is more likely to arrive here from elsewhere in the Americas nowaday, so the portrait of the Muslim communities in Québec City, even more than in Montréal, is very different from those in France or Belgium.
I don't really like describing communities by their supposed religious affiliation as not everyone practises or believes, but it is relevant in this particular case because it was an attack on a mosque. We still don't know much of the motivations of the suspects: one of whom was of Moroccan descent and the other an old-stock francophone Québecois, both young men.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-mosque-shaooting-victims-1.3958191 Two of the people killed have been identified: a university professor and the owner of a popular grocery and butcher shop in Ste-Foy, the former suburb where Laval University is located. This CBC article links to the other stories on the sad event.
There will be a vigil here in Montréal, not very far from where I live, at a public square near a métro station and a large mosque. I may go, if I make enough progress in the work I'm doing. People here and elsewhere are outraged.
Edited to add: we know far more. Only the young old-stock francophone man is in custody; the young Moroccan man seemed to trying to stop him (though this remains unclear).
He's a scrawny little guy; reminds me of Dylan Roof, the white supremacist who killed 9 African-American people at prayer in a historic church.
