(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper Wednesday stressed that his government rejected the latest attacks on Muslim women in Canada because of wearing the niqab.
The Conservative Leader, Harper, said that the government is studying whether to introduce a law- like Quebec's - that would require Muslim women who wear a niqab to unveil their faces when delivering public services as an employee of the government or receiving them as a citizen.
In an interview with CBC news, Harper said "Violence against women is unacceptable, which is why our government has brought forward laws to crack down on such violence." There have been at least two recently reported assaults on Muslim women in the wake of the niqab controversy. Two teenagers on their bikes came up behind a pregnant Montreal woman and tried to rip off her hijab, causing her to fall. Another woman said she was "singled out" and elbowed by a man in a Toronto mall for wearing a niqab.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the public debate over the niqab has become too heated, and he made an appeal to Harper, according to the CBC.
"To the prime minister directly: Stop this before someone truly gets hurt. We've had women attacked in the streets for wearing hijabs and niqabs. This is not Canada," Trudeau said.
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