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ST-APOLLINAIRE — “If you are really integrated into our society, prove it by being buried with us in a multi-confessional cemetery,” a woman told Quebec City’s Muslim community Wednesday night.

“Why do we need a VIP cemetery for Muslims when there are only eight lots left in our cemetery in St-Apollinaire,” another resident, Victor-Hugo Castro, added. “Why don’t you want to be buried next to us? We don’t have anything against you, but you have to accept us, too.”

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Another man listed off several terror attacks and aggressively asked why “it’s always Muslim terrorists.”

Other residents backed the cemetery.

“I’m Catholic and you are most welcome here,” Sylvie Bibeau said.

“There’s a lot of fear and stereotyping, but if we take time to talk to one another, that will go away,” another supporter of the cemetery said.

Talk of opening a Muslim cemetery has divided this sleepy town 45 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, population 5,800.