There’s been some Islamic controlled Spain convivencia harmony. It was back when Jews, Christians, Muslims, and maybe Gypsies, Greeks, and anyone jonesing for a morning coffee all shared space at an outside terrace in Cordoba, Granada, or Seville in 1100 AD or thereabouts. They wrote poetry, made scientific breakthroughs, and passed sugar towers and milk to each other.
We could make a long list of moments when elephants and mice became friends and it would eventually include Montreal back when Jackie Robinson was chased for an autograph rather than a lynching. Robinson was sent to Montreal to begin the break the color barrier baseball experiment.
Yes, peace and love Montreal with Pauline Marois as its first female premier which I think is sort of like a governor. She is also the first Parti Quebecois member in however many years.
She announced that all religious headgear would be banned from civic jobs and the Quebec Soccer Federation followed suite-banning head gear for its players. Peace loving Canada responded by kicking Quebec out of the federation and Quebec followed with a mellower stance and the ban was lifted.
Dear Pauline Marois, I’m not too into politics and I blame it on cable television, most specifically baseball. Why not offer all religious headgear people, ya know the Sikhs and Jews and Muslims and wine loving beret wearers and fashionistas who wear all kinds of hats.
Why not offer them all an officially licensed major league baseball New Era 59fifty baseball cap? Each one will sport the Expos unique logo. Do you remember it? 
The style was very much fleur-de-lis with its curves just like the Quebec symbol. Talk about civic cohesion.
P.S. And Pauline, there are over 70 color varieties last time I counted so no one will think you’re a fascist forcing identical individual expression.
Talk to you soon,
a montreal resident.
broken bats splinter 
I look at it this way. The woman next to me wears a bonnet. It means nothing to me, it means something to her, and neither of us is wrong.
sounds like a library. can they hear my thoughts? it’s so quiet in here.