It goes in niqab At a left-wing meeting in Canada, I gain entry without a ticket and receive smiles and preferential treatment.
He turns up at a Quebec QS meeting without an entry ticket, jumps the queue and everyone smiles at him.
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Mandana Javan, a women's rights activist and Iranian exile, has made a gesture laden with symbolism: She attended a public meeting of the Québec Solidaire (QS) party wearing a niqab., an Islamic garment that covers a woman's entire body, leaving only a small opening for the eyes. Without an entrance ticket or identification, she entered without any problems, She jumped the queue and was greeted with smiles.. The event, held in Montreal, was attended by prominent figures, such as the French leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
According to The Journal of Montreal, Javan wanted to make a symbolic protest. He wanted to show that, in the name of respect for diversity, some Sectors of the left accept symbols such as the niqab no questions asked. But for many women who come from Islamic countries, these symbols represent submission and oppression.
“They just smiled at me,” says the activist.“I went in, I jumped the queue and nobody said anything to me..”
Québec Solidaire is left-wing, sovereigntist and contradictory.
To understand Javan's gesture, one must know what Québec Solidaire (QS) represents. It is a left-wing party founded in Quebec in 2006, which combines sovereignty with a distinctly ecological, feminist and progressive agenda. It is, in fact, the most left-wing party in the Quebec Parliament, and has established itself as a young and radical alternative to the traditional Parti Québécois (PQ).
However, QS has often been criticised for its ambiguity on the issue of secularism, particularly for its rejection of laws such as Law 21, which prohibits public officials from wearing religious symbols. Feminist and secular sectors reproach them for a kind of uncritical tolerance towards Islamist practices., often disguised as cultural diversity, but which violate basic rights.
The niqab as a symbol of submission, not of diversity
Mandana Javan knows first-hand the meaning of the niqab. She was born in Iran, fled the Islamic regime and in her new life in the West she does not wear one. niqab, nor headscarf Nothing. Now, from Quebec, denounces that the Western world “glorifies symbols that, in reality, are instruments of oppression”.
In statements to QUB Radio, the activist said: “The bodies of women are seen as a common good within radical Islamism.. ”The woman must disappear from public space. And the niqab is precisely that: a disappearance.“ For Javan, wearing the niqab to a political meeting and receiving no questioning is a serious symptom of collective unconsciousness: ‘It's a way of saying, ’I cover myself up and you are nothing.”"
A left that doesn't want to see
Javan's denunciation is not only against the niqab, but against a left that, in his words, “doesn't want to see what it entails.” He denounces that it is about of a multiculturalist paternalism that protects radical Islam in the name of diversity, while ignoring the voices of women like her, who have fought against this system.
“Feminism cannot remain silent in the face of these realities.. ”I don't want to censor, but I want us to talk about it. Why did nobody ask me what I was doing there? Why was my head-to-toe covered presence accepted without question?" she asked on QUB Radio.
The action has had an impact in Quebec and France, but it also resonates in other Western societies such as Catalonia, where the debate on secularism, Islam and women's freedom is often avoided or reduced to simplifications.
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