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PM Harper’s ‘dangerous’ comments on Muslims show lack of understanding on culture, says Taylor

Speaking to a packed room at the Broadbent Institute’s Progress Summit in Ottawa Saturday morning, McGill University philosopher Charles Taylor said the prime minister’s comments on the niqab as coming from an anti-feminist culture conflates Muslim dress with the threat of terrorism and jihadism, which stigmatizes the entire Muslim population and creates a rupture in Canadian society.

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BY MARK BURGESS
March 28, 2015

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PM Harper’s ‘dangerous’ comments on Muslims show lack of understanding on culture, says Taylor

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