{"id":5808,"date":"2018-05-02T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5808-canada-muslim-community-s-hijab-event-cancelled-over-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:39:42","slug":"canada-muslim-community-s-hijab-event-cancelled-over-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5808-canada-muslim-community-s-hijab-event-cancelled-over-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Muslim Community&#8217;s hijab event cancelled \u2018over security concerns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reception hall in Laval, Quebec, Canada, that abruptly cancelled an event organized by a Muslim community group this past weekend says its decision was a matter of security, and &#8220;had nothing to do with the nature of the event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>A reception hall in Laval, Quebec, Canada, that abruptly cancelled an event organized by a Muslim community group this past weekend says its decision was a matter of security, and &#8220;had nothing to do with the nature of the event.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>Terry Christopoulos, sales director at the Chateau Royal, said he received a call on Saturday asking if the reception hall could accommodate an event at the last minute. He checked and saw that there was space available, he said.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Centre Communautaire Musulman de Montreal (CCMM) had sought to rent the space to hold an annual event celebrating young girls&#8217; decisions to wear the hijab.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>For the past two years, the CCMM has rented space at a high school in the city&#8217;s east end for the event.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The Commission Scolaire de Montr\u00e9al (CSDM), a French-language school board, had initially agreed to once again rent them the auditorium at Louis-Joseph-Papineau High School on Sunday.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The school board cancelled the rental agreement a day after the article was published, saying on Twitter that it made its decision &#8220;in light of information we have received, for security reasons, and in order to protect people and prevent an escalation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Salam Elmenyawi, president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, said the cancellations were &#8220;very disappointing.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad when members of the Muslim community are unable to hold their cultural events,&#8221; because of an acrimonious atmosphere, Elmenyawi said.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Elmenyawi added that the incident was &#8220;very disturbing&#8221; in light of the deadly attack at a Quebec City mosque last year.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reception hall in Laval, Quebec, Canada, that abruptly cancelled an event organized by a Muslim community group this past weekend says its decision was a matter of security, and &#8220;had nothing to do with the nature of the event.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 A reception hall in Laval, Quebec, Canada, that abruptly cancelled an event organized &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[128,205,665,703],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-canada","tag-muslim","tag-quebec","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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