ISLAM COMES TO CANADA - THE STRANGERS CAME AND TRIED TO TEACH US THEIR WAYS

"They blamed us just for being what we are.
But they might as well go chasing after moon beams,
Or light a penny candle from a star."

Montreal Gazette

Possible zoning changes in St-Lambert would bring down the number of areas available for religious activities from 19 down to nine zones.  -  ‪#‎gaznews‬

St-Lambert mayor says zoning changes don't discriminate against non-Christians

St-Lambert Mayor Alain Dépatie said that zoning changes presented at the last city council meeting were not discriminatory, despite reports...

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• Phyllis Carter -  When Jewish refugees fled Poland and Russia at the beginning of the 1900's and came to Canada, we saw the cross on Mt. Royal. We saw the many churches and the nuns and priests in their black robes. We knew our neighbours and all the authorities were French Catholics or English Protestants. My people were so happy to escape with their lives, to be able to work - even in sweat shops - to be allowed to build and attend synagogues and Hebrew schools, My people were so grateful to be able to provide for their families, pay their rent, buy simple food which they made tasty, to buy shoes and clothes and books for their families and send them to school, to watch their children grow and study and become doctors and lawyers in spite of hateful quotas. The Jewish immigrants did not ask anyone to convert to Judaism or to change their laws or customs to suit us, except to let us live in peace and safety. Sometimes our people did have to fight off French thugs who attacked them with bicycle chains and we did have to run away when we were chased by nasty little boys screaming "maudit Juif." But we are here. We are Canadians and no Jewish person I ever met when I was young EVER wanted to go back to Russia or Ukraine or Poland. We have been here more than a hundred years and my people have contributed greatly to Montreal and to Canada. Anyone who comes here should be grateful, and if they don't like our ways, they should leave.