ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates Muslim shareholders’ perceptions and experiences with public and Islamic education in Quebec. It examines how the public educational system is contributing, or not, to creating unity and harmony among future citizens. It also assesses parents’ rights to educate their children at the schools of their choice. The chapter aims (1) to shed light on the phenomenon of Islamic schooling in Quebec, (2) to assess the factors behind the choice of the school, and (3) to contribute to debates on questions related to public and religious education in Quebec. I will show that important questions related to reasonable accommodations and to the politics of harmonisation in education need to be addressed. According to most shareholders, public education in Quebec does not seem to fully respond to their cultural and religious. They do not consider the public school as neutral and as intercultural as it claims to be.
