Quebec City’s Muslim community hopes to open a cemetery to bury dead
QUEBEC — The shooting in Quebec City’s mosque over the weekend has helped highlight the fact the city doesn’t have a place to bury people of the Muslim faith.
In fact, the five Muslim cemeteries in the province of Quebec are all located in the Montreal area, the head of a non-profit Islamic burial association said Wednesday.
Hadjira Belkacem said families of Muslims who die outside Montreal have to deliver the body for burial in Quebec’s largest city or pay thousands of dollars to have it shipped to the deceased’s country of origin.
“It’s really a catastrophic situation,” she said in an interview.