Editing Mennonites (section)

== Controversies ==
As of 2007, the [[Quebec]] government imposed a standard curriculum on all schools (public and private). While private schools may add optional material to the compulsory curriculum, they may not replace it. The Quebec curriculum was unacceptable to the parents of the only Mennonite school in the province.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 August 2007 |title=Mennonites leaving Quebec after government closes school |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mennonites-leaving-quebec-after-government-closes-school-1.641343 |access-date=30 August 2019 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |archive-date=19 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019160213/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mennonites-leaving-quebec-after-government-closes-school-1.641343 |url-status=live }}</ref> They said they would leave Quebec after the Education Ministry threatened legal actions. The province threatened to invoke youth protection services if the Mennonite children were not registered with the Education Ministry; they either had to be home-schooled using the government-approved material, or attend a "sanctioned" school. The local population and its mayor supported<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 August 2007 |title=Townsfolk sad to see Mennonites move away |url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=8aa6f3f4-45fd-42d3-ad45-38b1106bddfc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109125147/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=8aa6f3f4-45fd-42d3-ad45-38b1106bddfc |archive-date=9 November 2012 |access-date=29 October 2011 |website=The Gazette |publisher=Canada.com}}</ref> the local Mennonites. The [[Evangelical Fellowship of Canada]] wrote that year to the Quebec government to express its concerns<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hutchinson |first=Don |date=8 September 2007 |title=Faith-Based Education May Result in Loss of House and Home in Quebec |url=http://www.christianity.ca/news/national/2007/09.000.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908233429/http://www.christianity.ca/news/national/2007/09.000.html |archive-date=8 September 2007 |access-date=29 October 2011 |publisher=christianity.ca}}</ref> about this situation. By September 2007, some Mennonite families had already left Quebec.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-09-04 |title=Quebec Mennonites moving to Ontario for faith-based teaching |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-mennonites-moving-to-ontario-for-faith-based-teaching/article1081765/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}}</ref>

Between 2005 and 2009, more than 100 girls and women in the [[Manitoba Colony, Bolivia|Manitoba Colony of Bolivia]] were [[Bolivian Mennonite gas-facilitated rapes|raped at night in their homes]] by a group of colony men who sedated them with animal anesthetic.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mennonite Community of Manitoba, Bolivia|publisher=Insider|url=https://www.insider.com/mennonite-community-bolivia-men-accused-rape-sexual-assault-women-talking-2023-1#the-mennonites-of-manitoba-colony-are-a-remote-religious-community-of-european-descent-living-in-bolivia-they-have-strict-ultraconservative-christian-beliefs-and-mostly-eschew-modernity-in-their-practices-to-preserve-their-own-traditions-2}}</ref>  Girls and women, including elderly women and relatives to the perpetrators, reported these attacks, but were at first dismissed as "wild female imagination", or else attributed to ghosts or demons. Eventually a group of colony men were caught in the act. The colony elders, deciding that the case was too difficult to handle themselves, called local police to take the perpetrators into custody in 2011.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087711,00.html | work=Time Magazine | first=Jean | last=Friedman-Rudovsky | title=A Verdict in Bolivia's Shocking Case of the Mennonite Rapes | date=26 August 2011 | access-date=21 January 2023 | archive-date=22 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222153030/https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087711,00.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The youngest victim was three years old, and the oldest was 65.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-ghost-rapes-of-bolivia-000300-v20n8/ |access-date=15 December 2022 |website=Vice.com |date=23 December 2013 |language=en |archive-date=15 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215154417/https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w7gqj/the-ghost-rapes-of-bolivia-000300-v20n8 |url-status=live }}</ref> The offenders used a type of gas used by veterinarians to sedate animals during medical procedures. Despite long custodial sentences for the convicted men, an investigation in 2013 reported continuing cases of similar assaults and other sexual abuses. Canadian author [[Miriam Toews]] has made these crimes the center of her 2018 novel ''Women Talking''.<ref>Schwartz, Alexandra (28 March 2019). [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/a-beloved-canadian-novelist-reckons-with-her-mennonite-past A Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409175446/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/a-beloved-canadian-novelist-reckons-with-her-mennonite-past |date=9 April 2020 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]''. Retrieved 11 April 2020.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-ghost-rapes-of-bolivia-000300-v20n8/?Contentpage=-1/|work=Vice|title=The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia|author=Friedman-Rudovsky, Jean|date=28 December 2013|access-date=6 January 2014|archive-date=6 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106032041/http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-ghost-rapes-of-bolivia-000300-v20n8?Contentpage=-1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Pressly">{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48265703 |title=The rapes haunting a community that shuns 21st Century |last=Pressly |first=Linda |date=16 May 2019 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=16 May 2019 |archive-date=16 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516001801/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48265703 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Connections between farmers and Mexican drug cartels in the state of [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]] have seen their parallels across Mexico throughout the [[Mexican drug war]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gurney |first1=Kyra |title=Why Mennonite Links to Mexico Cartels Are Nothing New |url=https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/why-mennonite-links-to-mexico-cartels-are-nothing-new/ |access-date=4 June 2024 |publisher=InSight Crime |date=1 May 2024 |archive-date=4 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604224634/https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/why-mennonite-links-to-mexico-cartels-are-nothing-new/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Sexual misconduct cases===
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