(CBC) A Muslim community leader in Winnipeg says she was shocked and disappointed to see a controversial magazine cover with a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad included as part of a case study in a provincial Manitoba Grade 12 exam last week.
The province’s education department has now redacted that section of the French-immersion exam, and made the exam — which was intended as a standardized provincial test — optional for students, after the province’s largest school division raised concerns about it.
“This exam is just another piece, another layer, that has been added to the suffering we thought we were all behind,” said Shahina Siddiqui, the executive director of the Manitoba-based Islamic Social Services Association.
