(Montreal Gazette) Six Muslim groups are asking a Quebec court to declare unconstitutional a new provincial edict that bans religious activity in public schools.
In a lawsuit filed this week, the groups asked Quebec Superior Court to “declare constitutionally invalid, inapplicable, inoperative or to annul … (the) governmental order to prohibit all forms of prayer” in schools.
The groups also asked the court to rule that the principles of state secularism and religious neutrality cannot “be used to order bans on prayers or other religious practices in public places.”
Two national groups are seeking the ruling — the Muslim Association of Canada and the Canadian Muslim Forum.
