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QUEBEC — Québec solidaire wants Quebecers to tone down the rhetoric when it comes to Islam.

Party co-leader Françoise David tabled a motion in the National Assembly on Thursday “condemning islamophobia, and calls for hatred and violence toward Quebecers of Muslim faith.” The motion passed unanimously, after some early opposition from the Parti Québécois and Coalition Avenir Québec.

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“You read messages on social media and you see many images that are really racist and islamophobic,” David said, adding she thought the federal debate around the niqab was not helping. The campaigning federal leaders have each taken a position on the wearing of the Muslim garb at citizenship ceremonies. Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper said he would insist that women uncover their faces during the ceremonies, while NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau leaned on a recent Federal Court of Appeal decision to say that it was up to each woman to decide.