Québec Identitaire ( English: Quebec Identity) is a Quebec based protest group espousing that people that follow

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

should leave Canada.Quebec City, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu mosques vandalized
/ref> In November 2014, the group vandalized several

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in Quebec and left paper leaflets with a written message in

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"''Islam hors de chez moi''" ( English: "''Islam out of my country''"). These incidents came shortly after two separate attacks by

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terrorists sympathetic to the group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The attacks, the

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and the

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, led to the deaths of two

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personnel.

Response

On November 12, 2014,

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Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil stated, "It's important for us as a government to condemn these acts...I had the opportunity to say to some international news reporters that it really doesn't reflect Quebec society. It reflects terribly on us from the outside. We are a tolerant society, inclusive and open to diversity."

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Response

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